“The harassment against Suren Abrahamyan is also harassment against the anti-criminal movement. The authorities are still after the same thing-to show who’s the boss,” said leader of “New Times” party Aram Karapetyan during a press conference. He also said that the authorities are ready to take any step that the Republican party wishes to take, starting from the announcement and ending with violence. “But who are they going to hurt if they don’t even know who beat S. Abrahamyan?” In response to this, Karapetyan said: “Whoever we find”. He had a hard time saying who really hurt S. Abrahamyan, but he did say the following: “The fact is that the beating took place after S. Abrahamyan declared that if the prime minister wants names of criminals, he couldn’t find anyone better than him.” However, Karapetyan doesn’t think that the prime minister is that stupid to order beating someone after making such an announcement. The leader of “New Times” also thinks that the third force could have played a role here and organized the crime.
