ArmInfo. Levon Ter-Petrosyan is ready to give testimony within the case of March 1, 2008 events, Aram Manukyan, member of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), told journalists.
According to him, all those who can be useful in the disclosure of the case, should be happy to report to the investigative service, give evidence and in every way contribute to the investigation. "There is not a single person in this country who is more interested in disclosing the case on March 1 than Levon Ter-Petrosyan," he stressed, adding that the ANC party was the first to express its support for the Special Investigation Service (SIS).
According to him, for 10 years the ANC has been collecting materials, and is ready to provide them to the law enforcement bodies. The party also has lists of those police officers who gave false testimony, lists of prosecutors, who made false accusations. "There are so many materials that they fully prove that the implementation of crimes on March 1 was planned," he said.
In addition, according to Aram Manukyan, the measure of restraint in the form of arrest against Robert Kocharyan should remain unchanged. In his opinion, it is a crime to defend such a criminal as Robert Kocharyan. "I assure you that the day when the SIS publishes the charges at least partially, or the facts that formed the basis of the accusation, all those" fakes ", high-paid lawyers and the media, who today protect Kocharyan, will shut up." Since protecting a person, who carried out such crimes together with his mafia, to put it mildly, is immoral, "he said.
To recall, on July 28 the Court of First Instance of Shengavit District of Yerevan granted the request of the Special Investigation Service of Armenia for choosing 2-month arrest as a preventive measure against the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan. On July 26, Robert Kocharyan appeared for questioning in the SIS, where his status was changed from witness into a "accused". After being questioned in the SIS, Robert Kocharyan in an interview to "Yerkir Media" TV channel stated that a real bomb was placed under the statehood, referring to the attempt to reconsider the decision of the Constitutional Court. "The accusation is fabricated, with political overtones and has nothing to do with reality: this is a political persecution, vendetta, legal surrealism," Kocharyan said. According to him, when making such an accusation, the investigation, therefore, does not recognize the decision of the constitutional court, the results of the 2008 presidential elections. In his opinion, attempts are being made to reshape the history in favor of political conjuncture. They are trying to transfer "the moods of broad sections of the population" into the legal field, and it turns out that Levon Ter- Petrosyan, who gained 21.5%, won in the 2008 presidential elections," Kocharyan noted. According to the former president, this may relate to the desire to neutralize his participation in political processes on the eve of the early parliamentary elections. As Kocharyan pointed out, he does not intend to avoid responsibility, "he is ready to serve the time in jail and go to the end", since his whole biography is connected with Armenia. To recall, as a result of the presidential elections on February 19, 2008, the Armenian opposition led by the first president Levon Ter-Petrosyan lost to Serzh Sargsyan. The official results of the vote raised dissatisfaction of the supporters of the opposition candidate. On March 1-2, as a result of a clash between protesters and law enforcers, 10 people were killed and 200 were injured.
The incumbent Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan was a member of Ter-Petrosyan's campaign headquarters in 2008 and one of the active participants in the protest actions. He was put on the wanted list and in the summer of 2009 surrendered to the authorities. On January 19, 2010 the court of administrative districts of Kentron and Nork-Marash communities of Yerevan sentenced Pashinyan to seven years in prison for organizing riots with a group of persons. However, in May 2011 he was released on amnesty.