Vardges Gaspari again lies on ground, calls for fair investigation into Gyumri family murder (video)
Activist Vardges Gaspari is now staging a protest outside the Prosecutor General’s Office calling for a fair investigation into the killing of the seven-member Avetisyan family in Gyumri. He is holding a poster which reads, “The tragedy in Gyumri does not only refer to the relatives of the Avetisyan family and Gyumri residents.” Lying on the ground, he silently expresses his protest against the heinous murder. Relatives of the seven-member Avetisyan family murdered in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri on January 12 gave Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan until February 26 to reveal details about the investigation of the murder case. They demand that the accused, Russian soldier Valeri Permyakov, be handed over to the Armenian side to stand trial for the murders. Six member of the Avetisyan family, including a two-year-old girl, were killed in Gyumri on January 12. The only survivor, a 6-month-old boy, was hospitalized in critical condition with stab wounds, but he died in hospital a week later. On the night of January 13, Russian frontier guards detained the main suspect, conscript of the Russian 102nd military base Valeri Permyakov, when the latter was trying to cross the Armenian-Turkish border. He confessed to the killings and was taken into custody. Armenia’s Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Permyakov under Article 104 part 2 point 1 of the Criminal Code – murder of two or more people.
