Lieutenant Colonel tried to blow up Harsnaqar restaurant complex (photos)
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11:04 – 01.07.12
A 39-year old Lieutenant Colonel Vardan Samvelyan entered Harsnaqar
restaurant complex at approximately 2.15 am on July 1 threatening to
blow it up.
Photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan reported that Samvelyan entered the
complex in a military uniform with a bag threatening to detonate
explosives.
Director of Harsnaqar Hrachya Zohrabyan called the police to report
about the incident. The police officers dispatched to the site
negotiated with the man for about 3 hours. They managed to disarm
Samvelyan and took him to Nor Nork police department.
The police task force has found explosives in Samvelyan’s bag and
seized them. Materials are being prepared over the case.
Vardan Samvelyan’s father is police colonel Samvel Samvelyan working
in criminal department of the police, and brother Arman Samvelyan is a
police agent.
On June 30 a candle-lighting ceremony was held with participation of
few hundreds of citizens which later turned into a protest action
because of a wedding held in the restaurant complex where doctor Vahe
Avetyan, together with his friends, was severely beaten by the
restaurant’s security guards on July 17.
Major Vahe Avetyan, who was the chief of the ENT Department at
Yerevan’s Garrison Hospital, was subsequently hospitalized and
underwent three surgeries, but doctors didn’t manage to save his life.
Remaining unconscious for about a fortnight, he died on Friday
evening.