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On November 29, the court of common jurisdiction of Kotayk region, presided by judge Makyan, will promulgate the verdict regarding, according to the official version, the “suicide” case of  Vahan Khalafyan  in Charentsavan Police Department.

Before the promulgation of the verdict, today Gayane Antonyan – defendant Morris Hayrapetyan’s attorney -gave an official speech where she mentioned the “lie-based” announcements that Ashot Harutyunyan – the former head of Criminal Investigation of the Charentsavan Police Department – had made at the trial. However, Gayane Antonyan did not mention about Ashot Harutyunyan’s accusations against her defendant claiming he had seen the knife in Morris Hayrapetyan’s hand after the crime.

According to the attorney, as during the preliminary investigation and the trial her defendant admitted his guilt – he was not able to prevent Khalafyan from committing a suicide – therefore, she presented the mitigating circumstances in the court, particularly, he helped the pre-trial body to reveal the crime. Basically, the speech of Morris Hayrapetyan’s attorney was nothing but an accusation, and with regard to the punishment for her defendant, Gayane Antonyan summarized her speech with the following formulation: “The whole trial process was a hard probation period for Morris Hayrapetyan. He does not need any time for corrections or conclusions,  moreover, because he has been unfairly under arrest for about a month, he has supported in the revelation of the crime, and  is also ready to settle the damage caused by the crime”.

Neither policeman Morris Hayrapetyan, nor his attorney responded to the direct accusations made by the victim’s legal representative Artak Zeynalyan that Morris Hayrapetyan had stabbed Khalafyan with a knife- at court. Today Artak Zeynalyan brought up a solicitation to the judge to re-qualify and enhance the accusation against the policeman. By the way, during Gayane Antonyan’s speech, Ashot Harutyunyan’s father cast a couple of remarks in Morris Hayrapetyan’s address, which stated that he had stabbed the knife into Khalafyan’s abdomen.

Today Ashot Harutyunyan also has come up with a speech stating that he refutes the accusation brought against him and announced that the incident was not a suicide. He once again asserted that the accusation brought against him based on Morris Hayrapetyan’s testimony is a fraud. He was periodically making accusations in the address of the accusing party for ignoring the evidences provided by him and his defender. He again mentioned the incident which took place in the room where Khalafyan died, the bumps and the phrase “what you have done” to which Koryun Piloyan objected. 

“Artak Zeynalyan also considers that it was not a suicide. Why and what is happening?”, asked the accusing party and clarified saying that they made tools out of the victim’s assignee  and defendant Ashot Harutyunyan in order to realize their goals”,-said Piloyan without mentioning who he exactly meant.

The Khalafyans and the Harutyunyans families reacted very violently to  the qualification “tools.”  Vahan Khalafyan’s uncle –Hmayak Khalayan- objected to the accusing party: “We are not tools, we cannot accept compromise or deals, I convince you Mr. Piloyan.”
After the main speeches advocate Seda Safaryan came up with the following remark: “The blame as if the actions of my defendant defamed the police, was also put on my defendant. I would like to remind that, when the police stood up against its nation on March 1, they were already defamed”. Accusing party, Koyrun Piloyan, interrupted Safaryan with the remark “that was your goal.”

After the trial, the situation was still emotional and they continued. The word “tool” deeply insulted the Khalafyan family.

“After March 1, this was the next?,- Hmayak Khalafyan threw a remark in Piloyan’s address. The emotions did not even calm down outside the courtroom. Ashot Harutyunyan’s mother said that Samvel Tonoyan- deputy head of Charentsavan Police – had hit Vahan Khalafyan on the head with a chair. The mother was claiming what her son did not tell during the whole trial, and it was what the Khalafyans were waiting for.

Today after the court session, the Khalafyans made accusations about Ashot Harutyunyan right in the court room.

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