Assassination attempt or accident?
Leader of the Armenian Aryan Association Armen Avetisyan was run over by a car yesterday.
Last night at 2:26 a.m. Avetisyan's followers found him at the reanimation department of the Erebuni hospital in critical condition with artificial respiratory system. The Armenian Aryan Association weighs the accident as an assassination attempt.
According to sources of the association, someone by the name of Arkadi from the National Security Service called Avetisyan two times during 10 a.m.-12 p.m. on May 4. At 12:20 p.m. Avetisyan left the office to meet that man at "Ayrarat" cinema and the meeting was scheduled for 12:30. "At 13:10 Armen Avetisyan called the office and said that he is on his way. After thirty minutes, we called to see why he is late, but he didn't answer the phone. We tried contacting him until 2 p.m. We kept calling, but no reply. After 2 p.m. the phone turned off. We sent an SMS and only later did we receive a reply that the message had been sent," say members of the association.
At 2:26 an investigator by the name of Gagik Harutyunyan answered the call and said that the driver who ran over Armen Avetisyan had given him Avetisyan's phone. The Armenian Aryans managed to find out that their leader was found at the Erebuni hospital.
"According to representatives at the hospital, Avetisyan was registered at the hospital at 2 p.m. He was brought to the hospital with various bruises in the head, chest, feet and his head was bleeding. The serious bruises in the head and chest go to show that somebody wanted to settle issues with him and he wasn't run over by a car."
The Armenian Aryan Association calls on the authorities and demands an immediate investigation of the assassination attempt against Avetisyan. They remind Serzh Sargsyan the following lines in the letter that Avetisyan had sent to him:
"May I and any Armenian feel secure in a country where Armenian or foreign "almighty" can kidnap anyone they want at any given time? May Armenian studies be defended in a country where an individual feels danger in the Homeland, while agents hold the fate of our nation in their hands? If not, what is your advice, distinguished RA President?"
