Did activists badmouth Serzh Sargsyan?
Colonel Robert Melkonian, chief of the Police Patrol Service (PPS), today confirmed that he had visited the central office of the Armenian National Congress (HAK) on January 28.
I went there to request HAK representatives to call their runaway activists to order. Yesterday when Serzh Sargsyan was passing along Koryun Street, the activists crowded near the Congress began wrestling, swearing and badmouthing. There are uncontrollable people, mainly women and youth, who always incite provocations and come to blows with policemen," Robert Melkonian told A1+.
"I try to take preventive measures whenever the public order is broken," Robert Melkonian said when explaining the aim of his visit.
Meanwhile, HAK senior representative Levon Zurabyan said they were unable to know the aim of the visit since Mr. Melkonian was shouting all the time.
"I think that not only the political prisoners and our activists but also law-enforcement agencies can be considered victims of this regime. Robert Melkonian whose psychological state is changing under the pressure of the acting authorities is among the victims. Mr. Melkonian links all incidents taking place in Yerevan with the Congress. He broke into our office giving no reasonable explanation and we were forced to invite him out. I really feel sorry for him," said Levon Zurabyan.
The latter assured A1+ that the activists had made no violations of public order. "Any incident regardless of its perpetrators drives Mr. Melkonian to agony," he concluded.
