Today the striking students clashed with the students of the University of Economics who were waiting for them outside the university. The students boycotting their classes were shouting “student strike,” the students of the university were shouting “go away.” The confrontation later turned into a brawl. One of the students of the university pulled around a striking student of the same university when the latter tried to enter the university. “They took the red ribbon off the head of one of the participants who tried to enter the building and hit him,” a striking student who had witnessed the incident told us.
Police officers did not pay attention to the “report of the crime” of Gor Hakobyan participating in the protest. Later on one of the students of the university attacked the striking students with fists, “Mind who you’re talking to, brat!” Police officers interfered and calmed the student down. Then the students got involved in an incident with the police. “Why are you here? You don’t prevent what you should prevent,” a striking student told a police officer. “Don’t you know why I am here? I have been with you for 2 months now; don’t you know why I am here? And why are you stirring up tension? It is not right.” The striking students left at the request of the university’s students to “go away.”
Arpine SIMONYAN
