LEVON BARSEGHYAN. “THE CRIMINAL WORLD AND MILITIA WORLD ARE INTERTWINED…”
September 4 2013
Aravot.am asked the Chairman of Gyumri Journalists’ Club “Asparez”
Levon Barseghyan to evaluate the actions of two senior police officers
who were trying to cut the so-called bread of the thieves, were
getting ready to rob the “Rubin” jewelry store located in the center
of Gyumri. “I think I have once explained that the police trying
to rob could not know that the territory is video-audio recorded
and controlled, nevertheless they did it. So, I think that they
had a guarantee from somewhere, in some way that the device will be
switched off. This is a logical judgment, may be I am wrong, and the
investigation is required to clarify the circumstances also, because
people with 10-15 years of experience in the police world can not go
to such absurd things knowing that it is video recorded. So, either
they have turned it off, or they thought that it was off, so they were
given a guarantee that it was turned off. It is not ruled out that they
hide a lot. The intertwined of the criminal world with law enforcement
since Dzerzhinsky times was normal until the end of the Soviet, and
then who said that there something has changed fundamentally. There
are prisoners, whose doors are always open, there are prisoners who
never eat the bread of the prison, they eat what is brought and bought
from outside, the systems is such to carry information back and forth,
and so on and so forth. These two worlds are intertwined together, the
criminal world and militia world. It was not a big surprise for me to
learn that police officers were apprehended for robbery of the store,
the world is so intertwined that with that their general swaggeringly
speaks. That man is unaware that we were saying for years that there
is weapon, a hostility between such-and-such families in the city,
they are waiting until those weapons work, shoot each other, and then
go and collect the dead bodies. We’ve talked about it many times, for
years, but these people do not make preventive measures, or do not do
at that level what should be. Perhaps, such clashes, bloody incidents
are beneficial, perhaps this is in the means of their struggle,
perhaps they have watched a few American films, they have thought that
this is the best solution, let them squabble each other and leave,”
– said the Chairman of “Asparez” club. He also said that none of the
owners of the weapons seized in Gyumri so far has been prosecuted for
possession of illegal weapons. “They had allegedly seized 30 weapons,
they showed, made a show, the word seized prompted me that they have
forcibly taken. I have sent inquiry, I have ask how many criminal cases
have you filed regarding such seizures and confiscations, they say,
no one, they have voluntarily delivered to us. We have the list as if
this-and-this person from this-and-this place has delivered, we know
very well that it is forcedly taken weapon, but you have not filed
any criminal case, hey friend. In other words, you, at your own, are
applying some quasi-judicial methods in the law enforcement system;
you find that you solve the problem like that, as if collecting
weapons. Whereas, if you have found-seized, and confiscated, you
must initiate a criminal case for illegal possession of weapons. No,
he says that the man has voluntarily delivered; he is relieved of
the responsibility. How did it happened that he delivered? Well,
I do not understand why didn’t they deliver it to me, but to you,
Vova Gasparyan?” – asks Levon Barseghyan.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
Read more at:
http://en.aravot.am/2013/09/04/156276/