Human rights activist: They would immediately identify the assistant if a Republican were attacked (video)
Member of the Pre-Parliament Initiative Gevorg Safaryan shows the place where he was attacked by unknown people and knocked unconscious on November 27.
"There were cameras in the area but the police took the recording only 14 days later and I am not sure whether the footage has remained or not. Anyway, I believe that the police will erase the video if it is still there. The cameras are so powerful that they can fix the license plate number and the faces of people who attacked me,” Gevorg Safaryan told A1+.
The police are now investigating the case; however, the Pre-Parliament member believes that the incident will not be disclosed. “It is clear that there will be no result, because those are happenings organized by the cruel regime and the police are part of that regime which will never arrest its own criminals,” he said.
Before the attack on Gevorg Safaryan, seven cars belonging to Pre-Parliament candidates were set afire. Later, masked people attacked and beat up several Karabakh war veterans and opposition lawmaker Aram Manukyan.
On Sunday, the police said they had detained the man suspected of the attack on Mr Manukyan due to operative-search measures. The man was identified as Arshak Svazyan born in 1973. Later, Svazyan was reported to have been released.
“During a briefing, [Prosecutor General] Gevorg Kostanyan justified the perpetrator of the violence and sent him home. Had a Republican MP been attacked and beaten up, they would have immediately identified the assailant and punished him: Republicans are well protected in Armenia,” said human rights activist Janna Alexanyan, Chairperson of the “Journalists for Human Rights” NGO.
