Eyewitnesses said the same thing
Eyewitnesses were questioned during NA Deputy Hakob Hakobyan's trial today. Only four of the 17 witnesses had shown up to court today, including two from the Arabkir police division and the other two from the Malatia division.
Eyewitness of the Prophylactic Department of the Arabkir police division Mher Mkhitaryan said that Hakob Hakobyan had nothing in his hands on March 1, but the people behind him had rods or sticks. He couldn't make out what they were due to the dark.
The next eyewitness Armenak Mkrtchyan kept insisting that he didn't remember what he had written during the preliminary investigation testimonies. He also wasn't able to mention the exact date when he saw Hakobyan. He said that he was given the command to disperse the people from the Opera. According to him, the people standing behind Hakobyan held sticks, but he couldn't say whether those people were the ones throwing rods towards the policemen.
Advocate Melanya Arustamyan said that the accounts of the two eyewitnesses are literally the same and they were prosecuted during the preliminary investigation with a 10 minute interval. Accuser Hovsep Sargsyan said that this was a misunderstanding because the eyewitnesses had been together and seen the same thing.
The other two eyewitnesses also said that Hakob Hakobyan had not insulted them in any way and that they had seen him for 1-2 minutes. The eyewitnesses who didn't show up to court will be questioned tomorrow at 1 p.m.
