Will Nikol Pashinyan be interrogated? The claim filed by the parents of the fallen servicemen

On March 25 of this year, during a question-and-answer session with the Government in the National Assembly, Nikol Pashinyan announced that in 2020 they made a conscious sacrifice.

“We made a conscious sacrifice in 2020, as a result we gained statehood and independence. We were not the authors of all the sacrifices before this, they took us to the shore and sacrificed for their interests, for the first time we sacrificed for our interests, our state and identity, the future.

The guarantor is the one who put the rope around the neck of the calf and guarantees that he does not even have the right to decide when to go to the sacrifice, he does not have the right to go to the sacrifice for himself, he can go to the sacrifice only for the guarantor, when the guarantor says that it is time for you to be slaughtered, go and be slaughtered.” had said Nikol Pashinyan.

Weeks after Nikol Pashinyan’s announcement, members of the “Sons’ Call” NGO of parents of servicemen who died in the 2020 Artsakh 44-day war organized a protest near the General Prosecutor’s Office building. They submitted a crime report to the prosecutor’s office regarding Nikol Pashinyan’s statement.

The parents of the victimized boys collected signatures right near the Prosecutor’s Office building, and then submitted the relevant application to the department.

Today of 168.am in a conversation with lawyer Vahan Hovhannisyan said that the claim is already in the domain of the court, but they have not yet received a decision from the court, it is being examined by written procedure.

“Criminal proceedings were not initiated regarding the report of the crime we presented, we also appealed to the prosecutor, the decision was left in force by him. In other words, the legality to initiate proceedings was established, after which we applied to the court in accordance with the Code of Criminal Procedure and we are waiting for the court’s decision,” said the lawyer.

Vahan Hovhannisyan believes that Nikol Pashinyan must be summoned for questioning if criminal proceedings are initiated.

“With the report on not initiating criminal proceedings, the investigator commented on Nikol Pashinyan’s speech and put that comment as the basis of the report prepared by him. In other words, Nikol Pashinyan’s words were interpreted by the investigator, therefore, if criminal proceedings are initiated, the body implementing the proceedings must question Nikol Pashinyan in order to get that comment from him,” emphasized Vahan Hovhannisyan.

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