As it was predicted the elections in Arabkir community proceeded in a super tens environment. The voting day was launched by bloodshed.
In the morning at about 9:20 when several of the guys of Tbilisi highway #7 tried to go out to vote at the polling station 4/02 suddenly 4 SUVs entered the neighborhood. About 10-15 sporty looking guys got out of the cars and started to beat them with rubber batons. Afterward, these guys, as claimed by witnesses, stabbed the young men. Afterward they put them on the ground and started to kick them and hit them with the pistol grips. According to one of the witnesses Albert Yeritsyan’s son Robert Yeritsyan was also in one of those vehicles, who was previously the head of the smuggling department of the Customs Service of Armenia. Yeritsyan was also among the ones, who stabbed the young guys. The witnesses managed to see the plate numbers of only three of the cars. One of those was a black Mercedes ML with plate numbers 80 008, black BMW X5 with plate numbers 80 008 (another serial number) and the third one was also a silver BMW X5 with Georgian plate numbers …EEB-501. The gang handed by Yeritsyan’s son also included a member of the famous “Tetsi Krug” skirmish, famous criminal authority Hamo from Bangladesh, who was only recently released from prison. Let us remember that the mentioned person is one of the loyalists of the head of the Prosperous Armenia Party Gagik Tsarukyan. Several residents were wounded as a result of this assault and one of them is Mher Kerobyan, aged 32. Mher Kerobyan was reported to have been taken to Kanaker-Zeitun Medical Centre with wounds in the stomach, cerebrum and ribs. Kerobyan was then taken to Erebuni Medical Centre. According to the doctors Kerobyan lost a lot of blood and his face was fully cut because of the knife stabs. There were cuts on his hips and waste, arms and all over the body. Yeritsyan’s son and his friends also broke the ribs of Kerobyan. In the hospital of Erebuni it turned out that Mher had a deep knife cut in his hip and he also has cranial injury (his cheekbone is broken). But he received the most dangerous hit around his lung. The doctors had to use an artificial hose to help Kerobyan breathe. During the whole Sunday and till midday yesterday Mher was in the rehabilitation department of Erebuni hospital. On Sunday the doctors refused to give any details. Only his doctor Karine Petrosyan told that if his health state was OK he wouldn’t be in the rehabilitation department. Yesterday morning another doctor Gor Melikyan told us that Mher’s health state had stabilized already and it’s not yet known when he will fully recover. At midday he was to be moved to the general room. On the election day Mher was supposed to attend a wedding as a godfather. After these events we also spoke with some other residents from Tbilisi Highway. A witness, a pro-Shahinyan resident of a neighborhood where the fight took place, said the violence broke out after Kerobyan and his friends were attacked by a group of other burly men who arrived at the scene in several cars. “Some of these guys had guns and they pistol-whipped our men,” she claimed. After getting out of the cars the men attacked people with truncheons and knives and stabbed Mher Kerobian, one of Hovhannes Shahinyan’s adherents. “These guys were beating Mher and his friends and didn’t let anyone lese approach them by threatening if they do they will kill them. They left only when one of the residents called the police.” After that cruel incident the ones, who were planning to vote for Yeritsyan didn’t even left their homes to go to the polling stations. The police refused to provide thought details about the incident in Arabkir. They said they don’t have anything else but the information showed on the police website. And the website had the following: “A clamor was raised on 7 Tbilisian highway at 09.20 on September 7. Later in the day, at about 09.40, Mher Kerobyan was reported to have been taken to Kanaker-Zeitun Medical Centre with wounds in the stomach, cerebrum and ribs. Kerobyan was then taken to Erebuni Medical Centre. The skirmish took place near Precinct 4/02. Mher Kerobyan supports the incumbent candidate Hovhannes Shahinyan. Eye-witnesses say Kerobyan was stabbed by Albert Yeritsyan’s proponents. An action has been instituted under Article 113 of the Criminal Code. Preliminary investigation is underway.” Several hours ago they added that “On September 8 at 9:30 am. S. Serobyan born in 1977 and T. Tadevosyan, born in 1968 came to the police department to self-confess. They said that on September 7 on Tbilisian highway at 09.20 they had a fight with Mher Kerobyan because he was trying to influence on the voting right of citizens. As a result of this they both received injuries.” As you see the name of Robert Yeritsyan is not in this statement. It is not hard to predict that Albert Yeritsyan would also buy the ones, who would confess for his son just like they bought votes and take away the whole responsibility from Robert Yeritsyan. The police website didn’t have any other information about the rest of the gang as the gang went to Tbilisi highway by several Jeeps, 10-15 people. Only in the evening of September 7 the special group of the National Security Service surrounded the headquarters of Albert Yeritsyan looking for his son to arrest. However, as it is simple to guess Robert Yeritsyan had already run away. This could also be imitation as the police, who were cordially cooperating with Yeritsyan all day long, could have just warned of the NSS group to stop by several hours before. After the visit of the NSS our police-oriented sources informed us that the NSS gave only two hours to give up Yeritsyan’s son to them. Otherwise they threatened to start their own search. Now it becomes clear that these rumors had a different context. Of course, the head of the information department of the RA police Armen Malkhasyan neither denied not admitted the rumors of starting a search. Instead he advised to read the information on the police website. As we mentioned there is nothing special about that on the website. By the way Tigran Tadevosyan, who confessed that he had committed the crime is the driver of Robert Yeritsyan. Let us also inform that Article 113 of the Criminal Code of the RA implies a 1-3-month imprisonment or up to 5 years. We hope that Robert Yeritsyan will abide the maximum punishment, who according to the witnesses was not only one of the gang members but was heading them.