Wednesday, March 15 2017 11:24

ArmInfo. Tigran Sargsyan (born in 1982) has been detained following the incident in Jrarat.  

The press office of the Armenian Investigative Committee reports that  in the framework of the criminal case investigated in the proceeding  of General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important  Cases of the Armenian Investigative Committee Tigran Sargsyan, born  in 1982, was arrested on suspicion of illegal acquisition and keeping  of weapon and ammunition, inflicting bodily injury of medium gravity  to two and more persons.  

On March 14, the members of the Jrarat structure of the ruling  Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) made an armed attack on the  teammates of the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc. The Investigative  Committee recalls that "pursuant to initial data, an argument,  beating took place near the village municipality during which shots  were fired. As a result, three persons with different bodily injuries  were taken to medical center. According to initial results of medical  examination one of the injured sustained firearm injury on the leg,  the second - on the back with a cutting-piercing item, the third had  a wrist fracture. A criminal case was initiated in General Department  of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA  Investigative Committee, an investigatory group was formed.  Inspection of the site was conducted during which 4 capsules were  found. The rifle was also presented to the investigative body.  Examinations, including forensic medical, forensic ballistic  examinations were commissioned to find the circumstances significant  for the criminal case.  As a result of urgent investigatory actions  conducted in the framework of the criminal case actual data were  obtained on the motive of the argument, the frame of participants is  found, their actions are personalized." 

Another incident in Jrarat village was registered on March 12. It  occurred between the supporters of the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc  and the head of the rural administration Lernik Yeranosyan. The  Investigative Committee reported, "Necessary investigatory actions  are conducted in Vagharshapat Investigative Division of Armavir  Regional Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee  to find all circumstances of the incident that took place on March  12, 2017 in the village of Jrarat. Pursuant to the materials received  from the police, on March 12 at 18:25 a call was received from  Vagharshapat's hospital informing that Lernik Yeranosyan with a  diagnosis "scratches on the area of the left eyelid, fracture of the  head, abdomen and chest" was taken to hospital. He declared that he  had been beaten in Jrarat village. On the same day at 19:40 a call  was received in Vagharshapat Police Division from Vagharshapat's  hospital informing that Michayel Baboyan with a diagnosis "hematoma  of right eyelid, fracture" was taken to hospital and declared that he  had sustained the injury during the argument in Jrarat.  According to  initial data, on March 12 at about 16:00 an argument took place in  the village Jrarat,  Armavir region which turned into beating during  which L. Yeranosyan and M. Baboyan sustained the mentioned bodily  injuries. Through investigation sufficient actual data were obtained  on the allegation that during the same argument L. Yeranosyan fired a  shot to the air with his gun. The site was inspected during which the  gun of "Makarov" model was presented to the investigative body. In  the framework of the mentioned case on the same day 5 persons were  apprehended by the police, one more person surrendered himself. The  clothes they had on at the moment of the incident were confiscated.  In the presence of the lawyer those apprehended refused to give shot  figment sample and explanations.  The degree of sobriety of those  apprehended was checked and pursuant to the inspection record they  were sober. Lernik Yeranosyan gave an explanation and a report on the  incident."