Aravot.am asked Yerem Sargsyan, the lawyer of legal successors of the Avetisyan family, which of the trial testimonies of Valerie Permyakov declared today by the North Caucasus District Military Court was especially news for them.
Note that today, the criminal case filed against Valerie Permyakov for desertion, stealing firearms and ammunition, and illegally carrying weapons was heard in the territory of N 102 Military base and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison by these Articles. “Officially, we were not aware of any testimony, as we did not have the right to be aware of, but generally we were aware of certain information relating to the testimony, particularly, for what reason and how he had entered the house and so on. There were several factors, which at this point are unknown to us, for example, the information that he had attached the bayonet-knife to the rifle in advance, and afterwards, he has entered the house. The fact that inside the house, he was trying to search for valuables and money, the circumstance of search, in any case, were unknown and it was quite interesting.
Certain clarifications were made related to the hour, the time when he deserted the military base, the time when he has entered Avetisyan’s house, primarily, the estimated hours and how long he had been there, what actions he did, even though they tried to evade and not to publish the testimony on the event happened inside the house, but we have at least this information currently. As far as we knew, his intention was to cross the border, to pass to the Russian Federation through Turkey, at this point, it became definitely clear that the basic purpose was to cross the border.
Let’s later on try addressing our previous position regarding crossing the border. Earlier, we have argued that criminal charges should be brought by this Article, in other words, there was a goal and the actions made to meet the goal was to cross the border and this matter definitely should be made a subject for discussion by the Armenian side in the framework of investigations underway,” said Yerem Sargsyan.
To the question that it is true, the advocates should not be guided by the impressions, nevertheless, what impression did you get on seeing Permyakov, whether he could be able to brutally kill 7 people alone, the lawyer said, “You mentioned quite right, it is difficult to speak by impressions, the experience shows that one person is able to commit such a crime. Specifically, whether he is alone in this situation or not, I cannot say anything until I become familiar with the whole volume of the criminal case, but in theory, one person can commit such a crime, especially given the arrangement of rooms in Avetisyan’s house that consisted of adjoining rooms. In other words, the entrance of one room goes through the other room, but specifically, for his case, whether he was alone or not, at this point, I cannot answer,” said the lawyer.
Nune AREVSHATYAN
