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    Emil Lazarian
  • 6 years ago
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Armenia teen charged with killing police officer ruled sane

News.am, Armenia
Feb 19 2020
12:54, 19.02.2020
                  

YEREVAN. – A 16-year-old boy accused of killing a police officer in Yerevan was ruled to be sane, his defender Artur Harutyunyan told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

His brother also faces charges in the case.

The incident occurred when police officers noticed two persons near the entrance to Victory Park in the early morning hours last Octover. Both men fled the scene. The police officers pursued and caught them on an avenue. One of the men grabbed policemen’s pistol, shot at one of them, and hit the other officer of the law with the handle of this pistol.

Police officer Tigran Arakelyan, 38, died of the gunshot wound he sustained, while another police officer was injured. The two brothers who appeared to be 16 and 18 years old pleaded guilty.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS