22 November 2008, 12:49
General Public Prosecutor of Armenia: none of the victims on March 1 was killed by sniper
According to the examination, none of the bullets extracted from the bodies of casualties and wounded persons of the events on March 1 in Yerevan was shot from a sniper's rifle, Agvan Ovsepyan, General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, told Thomas Hammarberg, Supreme Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe, who came to Yerevan.
The press-service of the Prosecutor's Office of Armenia reports that the results of preliminary investigation, which were presented by the Public Prosecutor on the case about tragic events on March 1 provide information that the police units included one sniper, who had been interrogated back this June.
Also, during his meeting with the Supreme Commissioner, Mr Ovsepyan has reported that in the course of preliminary investigation, in total 500 policemen and militaries were interrogated.
During the press conference on November 20, Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the Armenian National Congress promulgated an audio record with an interview of Samvel Nikoyan, chairman of the ad hoc parliamentary commission, given to a journalist of a foreign media. In that interview Nikoyan said that during the events on March 1 the police had used firearms and a sniper had worked at this time.
Author: Lilit Ovanisyan, CK correspondent
