WAS THE BLOOD WARM OR COLD?
Support A1+!“Didn’t it cross Mesrop Movsesian’s mind to send the shoes of his cameraman shooting scenes on the night of March 1 to an expert examination to find out whether there was blood on them or not?” This was one of the questions for head of “A1+” Mesrop Movsesian that concerned member of the March 1 events parliamentary commission representing the “National Unity” party Sargis Muradkhanian the most.
“I have no problem with showing the evidence. My job as a professional was to record the events that took place in central Yerevan on March 1 and that’s exactly what I did. The rest is up to the corresponding bodies,” said today in parliament head of A1+ TV Mesrop Movsesian.
The staff at “A1+” was invited to the National Assembly for a Q&A of the March 1 events commission.
But that’s not all. Member of the commission representing the National Democratic Union Artavazd Vardanian asked “A1+” cameraman Hovsep Hovsepian, who had shot scenes of blood, a human jaw and other details, whether or not he had touched the blood on the asphalt and if it was warm or cold. Hovsep Hovsepian was simply in a state of shock after hearing the questions of some commission members.
One of them wanted to know why nobody thought about interviewing the witnesses at that moment; another wanted to know who had ordered to film the jaw and blood. Hovsep replied that when the shootings began on Paronian Street, he went up Grigor Lusavorich Street to Paronyan strictly for professional purposes. It was there where he noticed a couple of other injured. Suddenly, the protestors saw the cameraman and shouted “Come, come and shoot the clip showing brains.”
According to Hovsep, the blood had flown 7-8 meters and without even noticing the fact that he was walking through the blood, approached the place which reminded him of a lake of blood. After taking a couple of shots, he returned to the editorial office since the city was in a state of emergency and Mesrop Movsesian had called all cameramen to the office. Hovsep was terrified after what he saw and told the commission members that although he had shot the unedited scenes, he didn’t notice any tongue and that was what the forensic medicine expert examination center of the Health Ministry stated in its final draft.
In response to the question as to why the cameraman hadn’t shot the scene with the flow of blood, the “A1+” gave a substantiated answer and informed the commission members that Hovsep Hovsepyan was filming those kinds of scenes for the first time and it is obvious that he was confused, but the commission members can see the before-and-after scenes in the raw material. “A1+” gave the commission the unedited scenes taken by Hovsep Hovsepian. The commission also heard what current “Zhamanak Yerevan” correspondent Tsovinar Nazarian had to say. Nazarian confirmed that she had seen blood in the same spot where Hovsep had seen it.
The head of the commission informed that the video-cassette has been sent for forensic medicine examination and there is a response. Then, the commission presented the final draft of the forensic medicine expert examination center of the Health Ministry in which it is stated: “In the photographs taken from the video clip there are pictures with no comment due to the low quality. The tongue portrayed in the picture is more like the tongue of a horned animal, while the mounds on the jaw are similar to the teeth of a pig”. It is also noted that no tissue and bone defects were found in the injured and bodies that underwent expert examination.
By the way, a very important statement was made today: according to results of a survey, there was no police officer who had been shot with a gun; only one officer had received splinters.
