For two days, a video has been circulating on the Internet, where the so-called blogger Aram Avetisyan, who presents himself as a political scientist from time to time, went to one of the markets of Ararat region with a camera and got into a fight with one of the boys selling watermelons.

“Is this news of traitors or not?” Everything started after this one sentence of the watermelon seller.

Then the blogger in a white shirt and suit, turning to the watermelon seller, says that if there is a problem, they will create that problem, after which he insults the citizen, calling him “hambal”, then threatens. “Whoever calls us a landlord, it’s his father’s, and he’s ours. Remember, you will be tried under the article of hooliganism, you will see.”

A few hours after these threats of Aram Avetisyan, the Investigative Committee confirmed that criminal proceedings were initiated in connection with the case of hooliganism.

Lawyer Araik Papikyan for what happened is not surprising, it is clear that they would not initiate a criminal case against bloggers protecting the interests of the CP.

“Everyone is equal before the law, except for those people who are members of the Communist Party or sympathizers of the authorities in our country. Apparently, there was probably an offense in that episode, but we must understand that everyone must answer for offenses.

When, for example, the head of the country can make a direct threat and has the opportunity to implement that threat, up to the point of making a threat by committing a particularly serious crime, and it has no consequences, but an ordinary citizen, who apparently may have committed a violation of the law or an expression that he should not have made, is prosecuted. We are dealing with selective justice in this case, and I regret to say that they made a mistake, that they prosecuted that person.” of 168.am Araik Papikyan said in a conversation with

He, as a lawyer, emphasizes that it is a very outrageous and painful phenomenon when all this is done by a representative of the government or a person who sympathizes and is not held accountable.

“But someone who is not a supporter of the government, criminal prosecution is started against him, and all this has a clear order, and the executors carry it out. I am sorry that that citizen, who was engaged in trade in the market, gave in to the government’s provocation, he was provoked. The criminal prosecution initiated against him is not fair.

I remember that after the incident of Permyakov in Gyumri, hundreds of people apparently committed a hooligan act. The chief prosecutor of the country, realizing that hundreds of people had committed that hooligan act, did not initiate criminal prosecution against any person, as a result of a sober assessment of the situation,” Arayik Papikyan emphasized.

It should be noted that watermelon seller Armen Kalashyan is from Zartonk village of Armavir marz.

168.am tried to find out from the administrative head Arshak Mkrtumyan what his opinion is about what happened.

“I heard some things, but I don’t know the details. I have no contact with that person, I don’t even know what kind of person he is, I can’t say anything concrete, I have no connection with them,” said the administrative head.

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