DEBATES START IN APPEAL COURT
Support A1+!October 27 terrorist action case reconsideration by the Court of Appeal entered debate stage on Monday.
Defendants Edik Grigoryan, Ashot Knyazyan, Hamlet Stepanyan and Grigoryan’s attorney Karo Aghajanyan made their speeches within an hour.
Karo Aghajanyan’s speech was brief. In his words, now it became clearer than before that the October 27 assassinations haven’t been planned and what happened was surprising to his client.
Edik Grigoryan was due to bring with him into the National Assembly’s session room a suitcase with guns, as it is written in documents of evidence, in order to create an atmosphere of fear here necessary to demand government’s resignation.
But he didn’t do that because was surprised as he heard shooting.
Karo Aghajanyan asked the court to take into account his client’s repentance and the facts that the accused has two children, that he hadn’t been tried before and urged to display clemency.
Grigoryan’s fellow defendants Ashot Knyazyan and Hamlet Stepanyan also asked the court to take into consideration “the facts proving their innocence”.
Ashot Knyazyan, for example, thinks his past and the fact that he had never been a member of any party and distanced himself from politics are sufficient evidence of his innocence.
Hamlet Stepanyan reiterated that he’d never been a member of Nairi Hunanyan’s group and known none of the defendants.
The hearing is to be continued at 14:30.
