Victim in Harsnakar case: "Attackers were twice more"
"After I came to myself, I saw Vahe lying just a few steps away from me but he was not responding, he was just grunting, Garik Soghomonyan, a military doctor involved in the notorious Harsnakar beating, said in his testimony.
He said after he recovered, his nose started to bleed, however Soghomonyan was able to find water, give it to Vahe and take him to hospital with his friends.
He says the attackers were twice more than they officially report and he can identify them in the face. The number of attackers grew when they came out to the yard.
The beating started after Vahe asked the waiter whether it was forbidden to enter the restaurant with a hat on one's head.
As a result of a June 17 brawl at the Harsnakar Restaurant owned by former MP Ruben Hayrapetyan, military doctors Vahe Avetisyan and his friends were hospitalized with serious injuries. Avetyan died in hospital without regaining consciousness 12 days later. The uproar following the death of the military doctor made Hayrapetyan renounce his mandate.
Six people, including Ruben Hayrapetyan's bodyguard, were arrested on charges of beating military physicians at the Harsnakar Restaurant. Garik Margaryan, Arman Baghdasaryan, David Adamyan, Arman Khachatryan, Norayr Hayrapetyan and Arthur Babloyan are charged with Article 112, Part 1 of the Armenian Criminal Code (causing life-threatening bodily injuries to two and more persons).
