Man stabbing opposition activist surrenders to police
Kamo Khachatryan, the man wanted for the March 28 stabbing incident in Gyumri city, has given himself up to police after a declared hint for him. Hrach Mirzoyan, a member of the Founding Parliament group, was hospitalized shortly after an unknown knife-wielding man inflicted stab wounds on him during a rally in Gyumri on Saturday. The stabbing incident took place shortly after a group of young men began pelting eggs at participants of the small rally. The Founding Parliament leaders blamed the police inactivity for the violence, saying that the authorities were behind the ‘provocation’ and those people were ‘provocateurs’ hired by the authorities to thwart the protest. The radical opposition group also posted on the Internet a photograph of a man who it said stabbed Mirzoyan. The man was identified as Kamo Khachatryan. “Khachatryan has surrendered to police and confessed to the crime,” Sona Truzyan, Adviser to the Investigative Committee's Chair, said to A1+. Hrach Mirzoyan was stabbed in the abdomen in the melee and is still in hospital.
