They agreed that he wouldn’t enter the pitch, but violence was used (video)
As a result of violence used by the policemen, Shahen Harutyunyan, “Tseghakron” party President Shant Harutyunyan’s son, was taken to hospital after Armenia-Denmark match. His foot was injured. “I must receive rest cure for 3-4 weeks. They said that I must hold my foot up so that water doesn’t gather in my foot,” he says. Shahen, who is receiving treatment at home, recalls what happened in the stadium, “Police cordon was in front of us. We weren’t able to watch football.” Then Shahen changed his place. “Then controllers approached, one of them asked whether I had a ticket, I showed the ticket and he told me to take my place. I answered, if he could ensure that I could watch the football without intervention of policemen, there would be no problem. When we moved and reached the grandstand, the stairs are very big. Then two persons held my arms and threw me downstairs,” he tells. An episode caught the attention of the media before this incident. 40 minutes before starting the match AFF President Ruben Hayrapetyan approached Shahen, “He said that the Armenian national team would appear in the black list, he spoke of sanctions,” he presented a paragraph from the conversation. It was about Shahen’s action during Armenia-Portugal match on June 13. He entered the pitch with a poster reading “Freedom to political prisoners.” “We agreed that I wouldn’t enter the pitch, I had no intention,” he said. Shahen doesn’t connect the incident with the warning of Ruben Hayrapetyan. Independent of this incident, 16-year-old football fan Shahen says that he will attend next football matches.
