Is the complaint formal?
Yerevan's Kentron and Nork-Marash court today hosted the relatives of March 1 ten victims who were challenging the inactivity of the Special Investigation Service. The claimants stated that the NSS failed to take due measures to disclose the murders of their sons.
Today the court was hearing the complaint filed by the successors of deceased Grigor gevorgyan, Hovhannes Hovhannisyan and Samvel Harutyunyan.
Prosecutor Harutyun Harutyunyan stated that the compliant was unfounded.
"I don't want to give an interview. All your questions will be addressed during the court sitting. We have presented the court a document on finding the compliant ungrounded," the prosecutor told A1+.
Vahagn Harutyunyan, a senior Special Investigation Service (SIS) official heading the probe into the events of March 1, 2010, was in court today as a respondent.
In reply to A1+ how he viewed the suit brought against the SIS, Mr. Harutuyunyan said: "I have no attitude to it as it is unfounded. The complaint is merely formal."
When asked what he meant, Mr. Harutyunyan said: "Let people lodging the complaint think about it."
Regarded the murder of the ten victims, the SIS head said: "At the moment I have nothing to say. How many unsolved cases you know both in Armenia and aboard! Does it mean the whole world is idle? "
"Our complaint is justified. We protest against the SIS inactivity, as the murders have not been disclosed to date," said lawyer Artak Zeynalyan.
Vahagn Harutyunyan and prosecutor Armen Harutyunyan outraged the plaintiffs with the statements.
"How can the complaint be ungrounded if to date no one has been made accountable?" said Sargis Kloyan, the father of March 1 victim Gor Kloyan.
"As soon went to court, they pretended to be working and told us we were disturbing them. What a shameful lie!" he added.
"Can a person be killed for participating in a peaceful demonstration? You cannot keep power with bloodshed; you must protect the country shading blood," said Armen Farmanyan, the father of Vachagn Farmanyan.
