On Monday at around 6:30 pm, an extraordinary incident took place in front of the Gyumri branch of the University of Economics․
A young man got out of a car and axed Armen Nersisyan, a member of the “National Value” club and the “Gyumri Can” initiative. It should be noted that the “Gyumri Can” initiative will participate in the local elections in Gyumri. It turns out that the young man does not share the ideas of the members of this initiative, but he has political views, and he decided to fight against them by writing insulting expressions under their videos and axing them.
On August 26, the members of the “National Value” club held a press conference at the Gyumri Dialogue Media Center, detailing how the story of the assassination attempt began. Vardan Srtashyan, the mayoral candidate of the “Gyumri Can” alliance, said that they were hosted by one of the Gyumri TV companies, and then they posted the video on the “National Value” Facebook page. A young man wrote insults when the members of the club found out that he was not a fake, but a real person, they tried to meet and understand the reason. According to Vardan Srtashyan, they found his phone number, called him, and they decided to meet with him in a public area, in front of the University of Economics.
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Armen Nersisyan, who is a lecturer at Shirak State University, thought of talking to the young man about the issue so that he would not choose swearing and insulting expressions as a way of working. The young man, who had already announced over the phone that “anything he wrote was right and he hates their political views,” coming in front of the University of Economics and getting out of the car, immediately axed Armen Nersisyan.
He injured Armen Nersisyan’s hand with an ax (see photo). At that moment, the members of the “National Value” club came to intervene, otherwise it would have ended tragically. The astonishing thing is that the young man personally initiated the video of the moment of reaching for the ax and spread it on the Internet, especially under the pages of “National Value.”
Armen Nersisyan said about this, “This is the image of the so-called political field, which today is expressed by fights, hammering, throwing people on the asphalt, etc. In fact, this is already becoming a fight because we have repeatedly stressed that if we were going in this direction, we would establish a worthless dictatorship. It seems that the defenders of that dictatorship are already appearing,” Armen Nersisyan said, expressing concern.
Nune Arevshatyan
