Valery Permyakov admits to all charges levelled against him
Valery Permyakov, a 20-year-old former conscript of Russian armed forces charged with killing a seven-member Avetisyan family, today admitted to all charges levied against him. During the trial which resumed at the Russian military base in Gyumri on January 22, Prosecutor Gevorg Gevorgyan read out the bill of indictment. He said Permyakov had fired 28 shots, killing on the spot Aida Avetisyan, Hasmik Avetisyan, Seryozha Avetisyan, Armen Avetisyan, Araxya Poghosyan and Hasmik Avetisyan, and stabbed five times six-month-old Seryozha Avetisyan with the bayonet knife fixed to the rifle, damaging vital organs of the baby. The infant died in hospital seven days after the killing of his relatives. During its Friday sitting, the Court decided to listen to the successors of the victims. Then it will hear witnesses and the defendant and study the case material.
