05:25, 21 May 2015

Advocate of Avetisyans' successors state need to combine both Permyakov's cases

A poster at the protest action after the tragic events in Gyumri in January 2015. Photo by Tigran Petrosyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

The criminal cases opened on the massacre of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri in Armenia and Russia should be combined, advocates of the family successors assert. According to Gevorg Kostanyan, the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia, the parties are now settling the issue.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that at night on January 12, in Gyumri, an attack on the Avetisyan family was undertaken – six family members were killed on the spot; and on January 19, the only survival in the attack – Sergey Avetisyan, a 6-month-old baby, died from received wounds in hospital. A conscript-soldier from Russia Valery Permyakov is accused of committing the mass murder.

On May 14, it became known from the forensic and genetic examinations that the family was assassinated by one man, and that Avetisians tried to repel the killer.

On May 20, Gevorg Kostanyan called the demands to render Permyakov's case to the jurisdiction of Armenia. According to his story, "a joint work is underway to find solutions consonant with international norms."

Ervand Varosyan, an advocate of the successors of the Avetisyan family, has doubts of the efficiency of the work of the Armenian-Russian Coordination Headquarters, which includes officials and criminologists from the two countries' Investigating Committees, in the above case.

According to his story, the case can be transferred either for acquaintance or for the continuation of the investigation to one of the parties. In any case, these two criminal cases should be combined, but it is still unknown, which party will take the lead and take all the case materials.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.

Author: Armine Martirosyan

Source: CK correspondent