"Why hasn't a single word been said about the condition of the bus driver who failed to react to the fact that a loaded KamAZ was going to crash into him? He did not even try to turn the steering wheel" Stepan Grigoryan, Head of the Center for Globalization and Regional Cooperation, said at a press conference on Thursday.
Grigoryan thinks that the LiAZ driver might have been in a drunken state, because he did not even try to dodge a crash, whereas the KamAZ driver Hrachya Harutyunyan tried to avoid frontal crash at the expense of his life in order to minimize the losses. In the meantime, Grigoryan expressed his indignation at the behavior of investigation bodies of Russia.
The expert also advocates launching the process of Harutyunyan's extradition to Armenia, because he thinks there will be no impartial investigation given that the issue is politicized.
On July 13 Hrachya Harutyunyan's KamAZ drove into a bus with 64 passengers. 18 people were killed. On July 15 the Tver court of Moscow ruled that Harutyunyan should be in custody till Sept 13. The Armenian may face seven years in jail if found guilty.