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Today the subsequent court trial over the case of GALA media service driver Armen Petrosyan’s claim versus the Road Police was scheduled in the Gyumri sitting of the Administrative Court. However, court hearing didn’t subsequently take place. This time Judge Edik Nahapetyan explained the claimant’s absence from the court hearing, despite the fact that the claimant’s representative, lawyer Arayik Zalyan from Helsinki Citizens’ Assembly Vanadzor was in time for the court session and noticed that at 14:30 pm, the hour set for the court hearing, the representatives of the Road Police were leaving the courtroom, which meant that the court trial had begun before the scheduled time, and by explaining the claimant’s absence Judge Edik Nahapetyan decided to put off the hearing. “This means the trial of the case is artificially protracted due to some reasons”, Arayik Zalyan, representative of GALA media service driver Armen Petrosyan, expressed such an opinion in a talk with GALA’s journalist. If the reason was only the claimant’s absence, then the court session could have been delayed for 30 minutes, as it was done by the court during the previous court hearing, when the responding party, representatives of the Road Police, didn’t attend the hearing.

According to Arayik Zalyan, the submitted claim was grounded and full of proofs, therefore, the protraction of the case trial is conditioned by more of that, especially, when the Court  was going to interrogate GALA’s staff members as witnesses. It is already a well known fact that on March 25 the officials of Gyumri Road Police made an unauthorized visit to the flat of GALA TV company’s staff member Armen Petrosyan and without a relevant notification or explanation they made him appear before the RP, while, taking his car to the penalty area.