09 December 2008, 21:08
Avagyan: in inquiry of March 1 events in Armenia, materials of nonexistent criminal case were used
The special investigatory group, engaged in investigating the events of March 1 in Yerevan, referred in its work to Criminal Case No. 62202708, the excitation and closing of which cannot be found in any documented evidence. This was stated today at a press conference by Avetis Avagyan, spokesman of the Central Office of the Armenian National Congress.
According to his story, there are evidences at the disposal of the Armenian National Congress about the violations committed by the members of the special investigatory group during the investigation of March 1 events. Mr Avagyan has reported that the defence of the detained oppositionists had revealed that apart of the basic case on March 1 events in Yerevan No. 62202608, there is another criminal case on the same issue No. 62202708. However, there are no documents confirming the initiation of Criminal Case No. 62202708.
The advocates of the oppositional activists have also managed to find out that after March 7 inspectors used to manually correct in documents figures 27 to 26. That is, Case No. 62202708 appeared unnoticed and then disappeared in the same manner.
Meanwhile, all the materials of this case have to do with the law enforcers who had suffered during March 1 events.
According to Avetis Avagyan, back from the very beginning, the philosophy of the criminal case on March 1 events was based on isolation of the facts related to suffered policemen away from the basic case. Then, all the materials about policemen had been gradually included into the basic Criminal Case No. 62202608.
The representative of the opposition has explained these violations of the law by the existence of a political order. As he said, here an attempt is obvious to link all the circumstances, from which policemen had suffered, with the members of the opposition and to ascribe everything what had happened with the policemen to the opposition.
Author: Lilit Ovanisyan, CK correspondent
