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    OLIGOPHRENIC?: RUSSIAN MEDIA CLAIM GYUMRI MASSACRE SUSPECT HAS 'MENTAL RETARDATION'

    News | 06.02.15 | 10:55

    By Naira Hayrumyan
    ArmeniaNow correspondent

    The case of the murder of a seven-member family in Gyumri may be
    taking a whole new turn as Russian media have published results
    of a journalistic investigation claiming that the prime suspect,
    serviceman of the Russian military base Valery Permyakov, has a
    history of mental illness and was allegedly "oligophrenic", which is
    a mental retardation.

    In particular, Russian Lifenews TV channel published the results of
    interviews with the commander of a unit and doctors, according to
    whom before being transferred to Gyumri Permyakov had been treated
    in a psychiatric hospital for a month.

    Moreover, the unit commander and the commissar are already held
    accountable for drafting a sick person and sending him for service
    abroad.

    In Armenia, this information provoked a strong reaction - many feel
    that the Russians simply try to justify the heinous crime allegedly
    committed by their serviceman and do not want to hand him over to
    Armenian justice.

    Thousands of Gyumri residents staged protests near the Russian
    consulate and the military base on January 15 demanding that Permyakov
    be transferred to Armenian law-enforcement bodies. One of the
    participants of the protests, Mnatsakan Alexanyan, was later arrested.

    Gyumri-based political analyst Gagik Hambaryan thinks that the
    arrest of Alexanyan may cause a new wave of protests in Gyumri,
    especially that the demand of the people has not been met despite
    the information that Armenian Prosecutor General Gevorg Kostanyan
    had sent a corresponding letter to his Russian counterpart.

    Russia's refusal to transfer the suspected criminal to Armenia is
    interpreted in two ways.

    First, it is believed that this way Russia is trying to prove the
    supremacy of its Constitution in Armenia, violating the right of
    Armenia to sovereign justice.

    Secondly, some suspect that the Russian side may be keeping Permyakov
    to ensure that he does not tell Armenian investigators a different
    version of events. Media have written a lot about the great likelihood
    that Permyakov was not alone in committing the crime and that it
    could have been an act committed by a group involving either other
    Russian servicemen or "agents of third countries". And, according to
    this version, Russia is doing everything for these theories never to
    be developed.

    Now declaring Permyakov to be "oligophrenic", the Russian side may
    even allow Armenian investigators to have immediate access to him. Now
    Permyakov can tell anything and whatever he says will only be taken as
    "delirium of a mentally ill person".

    One cannot, of course, exclude that Permyakov may have some mental
    problems and that it was him alone who committed the monstrous crime.

    But Russia's persistent unwillingness to hand him over to the Armenian
    side prompts that there may be another version, which is much more
    disadvantageous to Russia than declaring its soldier mentally ill
    and admitting that unhealthy people can be sent to the Russian base.

    http://armenianow.com/news/60401/armenia_permyakov_russia_gyumri_family_murder

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