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PERSONS BEHIND HAYRIKYAN SHOOTING AIMED TO AFFECT NATURAL COURSE OF ELECTORAL PROCESS - ARMENIAN PRESIDENT
TERT.AM
February 01, 2013 | 17:42
YEREVAN.- A shooting attack on Paruyr Hayrikyan is directed not
only against the candidate and a politician but Armenia's statehood,
President Serzh Sargsyan said in hospital where Hayrikyan was taken.
"Those standing behind the crime obviously had a goal to affect a
natural course of the electoral process. We are confident that law
enforcers would do their utmost to solve the case," Sargsyan told
reporters.
President Sargsyan expressed confidence that Hayrikyan would recover
soon.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an assassination attempt
was made against presidential candidate, opposition National
Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan, on Thursday at
around 11:20pm in downtown Yerevan, in front of his home. Hayrikyan was
shot and hospitalized with a gunshot wound . He underwent a successful
surgery Friday morning, and a bullet-which was located in the soft
tissues of his right elbow shoulder-was removed.
Numerous senior officials, politicians, and other presidential
contenders are coming to the hospital to visit him.
A criminal case is opened in connection with the assassination attempt
against Paruyr Hayrikyan. It is launched on charges of carrying out an
assassination attempt against a statesman, political or public figure,
which-that is, the attempt-is carried out to end this person's noted
activities. This crime is punishable by imprisonment for 12-20 years,
or life in prison.
The National Security Service is conducting the investigation.
Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am
From: A. Papazian
TERT.AM
February 01, 2013 | 17:42
YEREVAN.- A shooting attack on Paruyr Hayrikyan is directed not
only against the candidate and a politician but Armenia's statehood,
President Serzh Sargsyan said in hospital where Hayrikyan was taken.
"Those standing behind the crime obviously had a goal to affect a
natural course of the electoral process. We are confident that law
enforcers would do their utmost to solve the case," Sargsyan told
reporters.
President Sargsyan expressed confidence that Hayrikyan would recover
soon.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, an assassination attempt
was made against presidential candidate, opposition National
Self-Determination Union Chairman Paruyr Hayrikyan, on Thursday at
around 11:20pm in downtown Yerevan, in front of his home. Hayrikyan was
shot and hospitalized with a gunshot wound . He underwent a successful
surgery Friday morning, and a bullet-which was located in the soft
tissues of his right elbow shoulder-was removed.
Numerous senior officials, politicians, and other presidential
contenders are coming to the hospital to visit him.
A criminal case is opened in connection with the assassination attempt
against Paruyr Hayrikyan. It is launched on charges of carrying out an
assassination attempt against a statesman, political or public figure,
which-that is, the attempt-is carried out to end this person's noted
activities. This crime is punishable by imprisonment for 12-20 years,
or life in prison.
The National Security Service is conducting the investigation.
Photo by Arsen Sargsyan/NEWS.am
From: A. Papazian