Only one tent at Mashtots Park
Police officers tried to remove the tent that the environmental activists had set up at the park near Mashtots Avenue today.
"The police tried to remove the tent, but we surrounded it. After seeing that they couldn't apply force against us, they started convincing us to remove the tent," environmental-activist Karine Danielyan told "A1+".
Head of the Department for Ensuring Social Order of Yerevan Police Karen Movsisyan informed that "the police discussed the issue, told them that here was no article on not placing tents in the RA Constitution and we let it stay there as a show of goodwill."
However, the police warned the activists that they wouldn't let them set up a tent at Mashtots Park.
"We definitely won't let them set up more tents," Movsisyan said.
The youth came to grips with the police officers' decision and were deciding who would stay alone in the tent.
The environmental activists declared that they wouldn't leave the park. Some of them had already made themselves at home and were drinking hot tea.
"I think there will be more people joining us, and if they don't let us set up more tents, we will sit outside. Let them worry about that," Lilit Ghazaryan said.
The Administrative Court for Civil Cases has accepted the lawsuit that the activists and "Heritage" faction MPs have filed against Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan. They demand recognizing Mayor Taron Margaryan's decisions on placing stands at Mashtots Park as invalid.
