Merujan Soghomonyan believes his son was deceitfully taken to police station
Merujan Soghomonyan, the father of Edgar Soghomonyan, one of the members of the Sasna Dzrer armed group occupying a police building in Yerevan’s ERebuni district since Sunday, demands that Pavlik Manukyan return his son. “I am ill and I have a disability. Only my son can look after me,” Merujan Soghomonyan announced during a press conference convened by the police. The father says his son cannot be linked to the Sasna Dzrer armed group. My son has neither done military service, nor carried a weapon in his hands. Besides, he has poor vision, do not be hard on him, please. We had no information from him [Edgar] and all of a sudden we learn that he is among the attackers. My son has nothing to do with politics and cannot answer a single question,” said the father. Merujan Soghomonyan believes that his son was deceitfully taken to the police premises. “He was told that the authorities are surrendering the territories in Karabakh to Turks. They told him they were going to a demonstration and he joined them.” The father says Edgar lived in Russia and came to Armenia on July 13. He was to return to Russia in a few days’ time. Like Merujan Soghomonyan , Marine Papikyan also demanded that her son be sent home from the seized police building. “Garik lives in Russia and came to Rmenia to change his passport. I phoned him in the morning to know his whereabouts, Garik said he did not know where he was, he only said he was inside a building,” Mrs. Papikyan said adding that she understood everything after hearing the news about the attack on the police premises. By the way, the police do not confirm that these two men are in the seized police headquarters. They say they only responded to the request of desperate parents who were looking for their sons.
