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Yerevan police find suspect behind desecration of Holocaust memorial

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 10:59,

YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 17, ARMENPRESS. Yerevan police said they have apprehended the suspect who allegedly vandalized the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide Memorial in downtown Yerevan on February 12.  

The suspect is a 36-year-old man.  He turned himself in to authorities after “explanatory work” conducted by Yerevan police.

Police said the suspect was booked on February 15 and confessed to committing the crime.

A criminal case on vandalism is filed.

Editing and Translating by Stepan Kocharyan

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