ArmInfo.One should not look for any manifestations of the apocalypse in the actions of the law enforcement agencies of Armenia, Vice Speaker of the National Assembly Hakob Arshakyan stated in Parliament.
According to him, videos often leak online showing a group of young, enthusiastic people breaking car windows. "How should the police react in this situation? I'll say more: precedents of this kind have happened before, when in the center of Yerevan some citizens broke car windows. And there is no need to blame law enforcement agencies for responding to this kind of phenomenon, including the initiation of criminal proceedings ", the vice speaker noted, pointing to the facts of road blocking in the Tavush region of the country.
Arshakyan noted that he understands the emotions of residents of villages bordering Azerbaijan, but calls for calm. In his opinion, blocking interstate highways does not serve as a method of solving problems. "Some of the citizens, and I don't want to specify which ones, are really concerned - they are few, but they exist. They blocked the road, which I do not approve of. You cannot resort to such actions," - Arshakyan said, apparently having "forgotten" about similar actions by the opposition in 2018.
Commenting on the incident with the car of the Yerkrapah Volunteer Union, which hit protesters, Arshakyan said that the driver had the right to travel. "The people who blocked the road attacked this car and damaged it," Arshakyan emphasized.
On May 2, the police surrounded the protesting Tavush residents in the village of Kirants, and, using brute and disproportionate force, detained men and teenagers on the blocked Kirants-Voskepar road for several hours. After that, several hundred police officers surrounded the village and did not let anyone in. Even Head of the Tavush diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church Bagrat Galstanyan was forbidden to enter the village.
Since April 19, residents of Tavush have been protesting against unilateral unconstitutional concessions to Azerbaijan by the Armenian authorities.