C’è stato un attacco alla polizia da parte di membri del movimento Catholicos e Kocharyan. Il Primo Ministro sugli eventi di ieri || C’è stato un attacco alla polizia da parte di membri del movimento Catholicos e Kocharyan. il Primo Ministro sugli eventi di ieri

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RA Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, during his final speech on the 2024 budget report in the National Assembly, referred to the incident between the protesters and the police in front of the National Assembly building during the meeting led by Vazgen (Bagrat) Galstanyan.

“There was an attack on the police by the members of the movement led by the All-Armenian Catholicos and Robert Kocharyan. The reaction of the police was legitimate and professional. In all similar cases, the police will act in the same way.

Demonstrators tried to forcefully break through the police lines to attack the supreme legislative body, the police defended the RA legislative institution and the RA statehood. Someone with the rank of a bishop told the police before the attack: “Well, guys, take off your helmets, there is no threat”, then after some time, the same person organized an attack in the direction of those boys. This is all you need to know about the moral profile of the two high-ranking officials of the Armenian Apostolic Church,” he said.

The Prime Minister said that 18 police officers and 83 citizens were injured in yesterday’s incidents, all injuries were of light and medium severity. At the moment, 16 people are hospitalized, the condition of all of them is assessed as satisfactory.

Then he referred to the statements made by opposition MPs that a citizen’s hand was cut off as a result of clashes between policemen. “Yesterday in this hall they showed me a picture and tried to convince me that the citizen’s hand was torn off, while it was obvious that there was no such thing. The citizen underwent an operation and three of his fingers were removed, for which I am sorry. It became clear from the videos that the citizen himself picked up the special device thrown by the police, which is safe for life, and which exploded in his hand. If he hadn’t taken it, it wouldn’t have happened.”