ArmInfo.According to the legislation of Armenia, for the resumption of previously initiated criminal cases new circumstances should appear. On October 27, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan said this in an interview with journalists, answering the question of whether the case on the events of October 27, 1999 would be reopened.
According to Pashinyan, the successors of the victims of this terrorist attack can tell more because they are familiar with the case materials. The Acting Prime Minister noted that in his time, being a journalist, he knew some details of the case, but at the moment, the successors of the victims are the ones who have something to say.
On the question of whether external or internal forces are behind the terrorist attack on October 27, he noted: "In my current status, I think it will be wrong to make some comments."
To note,the Armenian parliament shooting, commonly known in Armenia as October 27 was a terrorist attack on the Armenian National Assembly in the capital Yerevan on October 27, 1999, by a group of five armed men led by Nairi Hunanyan that, among others, killed the two de facto decision-makers in the country's political leadership - Prime Minister Vazgen Sargsyan and Parliament Speaker Karen Demirchyan. Sargsyan and Demirchyan were posthumously honored with National Hero of Armenia titles. The murderers also shot dead Yuri Bakhshyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Ruben Miroyan, Deputy National Assembly Speaker, Leonard Petrosyan, Minister of Urgent Affairs, MPs Henrik Abrahamyan, Armenak Armenakyan, Mikayel Kotanyan.
The five men were charged with terrorism aimed at undermining authority on 29 October. The five main perpetrators of the shooting (Nairi Hunanyan, his younger brother Karen Hunanyan, their uncle Vram Galstyan, Derenik Ejanyan and Eduard Grigoryan) were sentenced to life in prison on December 2, 2003.
Today, Acting Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, members of the government, members of parliament will pay a tribute to the memory of those killed in the attack near the obelisk installed in the garden of the National Assembly.