Chief Prosecutor of Shirak province contacts Prosecutor General over Gyumri tragedy
To comfort the citizens protesting outside Russian military base N102 in Gyumri, Raffi Aslanyan, Chief Prosecutor of Armenia's Shirak province, called Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan to inform him about the protesters’ demand, i.e. to arrange the handover of 19-year-old Valery Permyakov, a Russian soldier who killed six members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri on Monday. Gevorg Kostanyan said the talks with the Russian side are underway and everything will be clear on Thursday. The protesters are still gathered outside the military base. Valery Permyakov has been accused of murder under Article 104 of the Armenian Criminal Code. Six members of a seven-member family in Gyumri, including a small little child, were brutally murdered on Monday morning. Seryozha Avetisyan, his wife Hasmik, daughter Aida, son Armen, daughter-in-law Araksya, and two-year-old granddaughter Hasmik, were found killed, when a relative-neighbor came to the house for morning coffee. A six-month-old infant, the only survivor of the brutal murder, was hospitalized with severe stab wounds in his chest. Valery Permyakov, the Russian soldier suspected of the killing, was detained on the same day when attempting to cross the border with Turkey. Permyakov had served at Russian military base N102 where residents of Gyumri are staging a protest now.
