Sargis Hatspanian Wanted for Questioning

LTP Rally 143A1 Plus reports that there are now over 60 tents erected in Yerevan’s Liberty Square by demonstrators protesting in support of former president Levon Ter-Petrossian.

The news item also reports that policemen also visited the venue for the protest earlier in the day in order to take Sargis Hatspanian, a French-Armenian Karabakh war veteran who spoke in support of Ter-Petrossian at a recent rally, to a police station for questioning.

Hatspanian neither signed nor took the summons. Meanwhile, the presentees chained the platform and began shouting, “Sargis, Sargis!”

After the policemen retired, Hatspanian began comforting people saying that in case he was detained people should apply to the French Government and Foreign Ministry. Hatspanian confessed that he had never broken any law or committed a crime in Armenia.

“They will find nothing in my house but 4000 books. Is a person devoting himself to literature considered a criminal?” Hatspanian wondered.

Supposedly, Hatspanian was called to the police station for his interference in Armenia’s political life.

To remind, Hatspanian has got French citizenship. He returned to Armenia 18 years ago.

Photo: © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2008



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