JUDGE COLLABORATES WITH SKINHEADS
Support A1+!The first instance court of Center, Nork-Marash began considering case on assault on journalists on Thursday.
The case has been instigated into the incident occurred at the rally staged by National Unity leader Artashes Geghamyan on April 2, when skinheads beat media representatives and broke their cameras.
As many as 50 skinheads were present at Thursday’s court session. About 20 of them stood on foyer barring journalists from entering the courtroom and insulting them. They made insulting remarks toward Noyan Tapan news agency correspondent Sona Mashouryan and widely smiling promised “to smash her head”.
Before letting Aykakan Zhamanak newspaper’s editor-in-chief Nikol Pashinyan and the same newspaper’s correspondent Hayk Grigoryan enter, the skinheads questioned them who they are and why came here.
When the newspaper representatives passed the first barrier and eventually entered the courtroom, one skinhead start questioning them here and asked the judge whether to let them sit down or not.
Nikol Pashinyan said he has nothing to do in the court where skinheads decide everything and went out.
Many journalists failed to get in session room to hear the case on the assault on their colleagues and remained outdoors.
The court eventually obliged two skinheads to pay 100.000 drams to the beaten journalists.
