Public discussions on Gyumri murder (video)

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The Gyumri-based Asparez Club has initiated public discussions in connection with the criminal case filed after last month’s murder of a seven-member family in Gyumri. The draft agenda includes,

1. comparison, combination and discussion of the available information and controversial issues, as well as initiation of a publicinvestigation intothe crime.
2. analysis of violations and offenses following the crime, the actions of law enforcement agencies, their mistakes and inactivity, determination of people’s actions to detect the crime and the ensuing offenses and to hand over the suspect to the Armenian side.
3. development of defence mechanisms to defend citizens from similar crimes.

Six members of the Avetisyan family, including a two-year-old child, were shot dead in their house in Gyumri in the morning of January 12. A six-month-old baby, Seryozha Avetisyan, was hospitalized with stab wounds. He died in hospital a week later. The main suspect of the crime, Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of Russian Military Base N 102 stationed in Gyumri, was detained by Russian border guards late in the same day while attempting to cross the Armenian-Turkish border near Yerazgavors village in Armenia’s Shirak province. The murder of the seven-member family sparked violent protests in Gyumri and Yerevan, with people demanding that Permyakov be handed over to Armenian authorities and to stand trial by the Armenian law.