Ter-Petrosyan takes responsibility
Levon Ter-Petrosyan personally announced that he had decided to help the police officers and transmitted the officers' warning was illegal to the gathered.
The atmosphere intensifies each time police officers enter the square and announce that the rally is illegal.
"They say the event is illegal, and the organizers will be held responsible," Levon Ter-Petrosyan said as he transmitted what the police officers were saying.
According to him, the demand is aimed at him, not the rally participants. "I know that I am responsible and I will pay the fine."
The First President recalled that he had been fined three times on such an occasion durign Gorbachev's term in office, but that fine was paid by Soviet judges.
"I'm not dumb, I understood what you said," the First President said as he addressed the police officers with the demand to stop notifying when the officers made the same demand during Ter-Petrosyan's speech.
Right after Ter-Petrosyan's speech, Gor Kloyan, father of one of the victims of March 1, Sargis Kloyan, got frustrated and asked how the police officers could speak of legitimacy when they illegally applied force against helpless citizens on March 1, 2008.
