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VICTIMS' FAMILY APPEAL: VARDAN PETROSYAN SHOULD GET MINIMUM OF SIX YEARS
Zaruhi Mejlumyan
11:38, March 3, 2015
While Vardan Petrosyan, the performance artist sentenced on January
29 to five years for his complicity in a deadly October 2013 car
accident that killed two teenagers will not be appealing the verdict,
the family of the victims will.
Yesterday was the deadline for filing an appeal of the January
29 verdict.
Rouben Baloyan, attorney for the Hakobyan family, told Hetq that in
their appeal they would be seeking 8 million AMD in compensation for
medical treatment regarding one of the injured, Tatevik Hakobyan.
The lower court only sustained the 1.2 million AMD compensation claim
made by the ministry of agriculture. The court never even reviewed
the monetary claim made by the victims' family.
They have also appealed the five year sentence handed down to
Petrosyan, arguing that he should have been given a minimum of six
years. Baloyan told Hetq that the lower court did not take into account
that in addition to the two deaths, four other passengers in the car
were injured, one seriously.
A third demand is that Petrosyan be deprived of his right to drive
in Armenia for three years and not the two declared by the lower court.
During the year long trial Petrosyan always claimed his innocence,
arguing that he did not violate any traffic laws and that the other
car backed into the roadway, leaving him no chance to swerve away.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/58807/victims-family-appeal-vardan-petrosyan-should-get-minimum-of-six-years.html
Zaruhi Mejlumyan
11:38, March 3, 2015
While Vardan Petrosyan, the performance artist sentenced on January
29 to five years for his complicity in a deadly October 2013 car
accident that killed two teenagers will not be appealing the verdict,
the family of the victims will.
Yesterday was the deadline for filing an appeal of the January
29 verdict.
Rouben Baloyan, attorney for the Hakobyan family, told Hetq that in
their appeal they would be seeking 8 million AMD in compensation for
medical treatment regarding one of the injured, Tatevik Hakobyan.
The lower court only sustained the 1.2 million AMD compensation claim
made by the ministry of agriculture. The court never even reviewed
the monetary claim made by the victims' family.
They have also appealed the five year sentence handed down to
Petrosyan, arguing that he should have been given a minimum of six
years. Baloyan told Hetq that the lower court did not take into account
that in addition to the two deaths, four other passengers in the car
were injured, one seriously.
A third demand is that Petrosyan be deprived of his right to drive
in Armenia for three years and not the two declared by the lower court.
During the year long trial Petrosyan always claimed his innocence,
arguing that he did not violate any traffic laws and that the other
car backed into the roadway, leaving him no chance to swerve away.
http://hetq.am/eng/news/58807/victims-family-appeal-vardan-petrosyan-should-get-minimum-of-six-years.html