They didn't want to spoil the "cosmetic appearance"
"You could reveal the perpetrators of the March 1 events within a month if you weren't subjected to political pressure," leader of the New Times Party (NZhK) and member of the parliamentary commission looking into the events of March 1-2, 2008, in Yerevan City, said to Vahagn Harutyunyan, senior investigator of the Special Investigative Group.
He reminded that the former Chief of Police Hayk Harutyunyan blamed the Investigative Group for concealing the circumstances of the murders.
"The reason is the group's malfunctioning," Hayk Harutyunyan said at the Commission's previous sitting.
Vahagn Harutyunyan gave an ironical smile in reply and noted that the aim of the fact-finding group was to distort the existing facts.
Note that recently the fact-finding group sent to the parliamentary commission its conclusion on the circumstances of police officer Hamlet Tadevosyan's death, who, according to the official data, was killed from a bomb thrown by a demonstrator. The fact-finding group found out that the preliminary investigation was conducted wrongly, and Hamlet Tadevosyan died in the result of a bomb explosion in his hands.
Vahagn Harutyunyan confirmed that the officer had really died of a bomb but it is still unknown who threw the bomb and whether it was a bomb or something else.
Vahagn Harutyunyan called it "an unidentified explosive of the investigation."
Vigen Adamyan, a senior judicial doctor, said they were unable to identify the grenade as they were prohibited to "spoil the cosmetic appearance of the body."
Let's remind that Hamlet Tadevosyan had been wounded in the leg, and the victim's "cosmetic appearance" couldn't be spoiled anyway.
"Surely, the preliminary investigation was conducted with apparent shortcomings," said Vahagn Harutyunyan. "However, they will not affect the unbiased investigation of the criminal case."
The Commission Chairman, Samvel Nikoyan, wondered why Tadevosyan's flak jacket hadn't been examined. Vahagn Harutyunyan's reply was rather impressive.
It is too bad that bullet-proof vest wasn't sent to an examination," said Vahagn Harutyunyan smiling.
