ArmInfo. Tigran Sargsyan (born in 1982) has been detained following the incident in Jrarat.
The press office of the Armenian Investigative Committee reports that in the framework of the criminal case investigated in the proceeding of General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Armenian Investigative Committee Tigran Sargsyan, born in 1982, was arrested on suspicion of illegal acquisition and keeping of weapon and ammunition, inflicting bodily injury of medium gravity to two and more persons.
On March 14, the members of the Jrarat structure of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) made an armed attack on the teammates of the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc. The Investigative Committee recalls that "pursuant to initial data, an argument, beating took place near the village municipality during which shots were fired. As a result, three persons with different bodily injuries were taken to medical center. According to initial results of medical examination one of the injured sustained firearm injury on the leg, the second - on the back with a cutting-piercing item, the third had a wrist fracture. A criminal case was initiated in General Department of Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the RA Investigative Committee, an investigatory group was formed. Inspection of the site was conducted during which 4 capsules were found. The rifle was also presented to the investigative body. Examinations, including forensic medical, forensic ballistic examinations were commissioned to find the circumstances significant for the criminal case. As a result of urgent investigatory actions conducted in the framework of the criminal case actual data were obtained on the motive of the argument, the frame of participants is found, their actions are personalized."
Another incident in Jrarat village was registered on March 12. It occurred between the supporters of the Ohanyan-Raffi-Oskanian bloc and the head of the rural administration Lernik Yeranosyan. The Investigative Committee reported, "Necessary investigatory actions are conducted in Vagharshapat Investigative Division of Armavir Regional Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee to find all circumstances of the incident that took place on March 12, 2017 in the village of Jrarat. Pursuant to the materials received from the police, on March 12 at 18:25 a call was received from Vagharshapat's hospital informing that Lernik Yeranosyan with a diagnosis "scratches on the area of the left eyelid, fracture of the head, abdomen and chest" was taken to hospital. He declared that he had been beaten in Jrarat village. On the same day at 19:40 a call was received in Vagharshapat Police Division from Vagharshapat's hospital informing that Michayel Baboyan with a diagnosis "hematoma of right eyelid, fracture" was taken to hospital and declared that he had sustained the injury during the argument in Jrarat. According to initial data, on March 12 at about 16:00 an argument took place in the village Jrarat, Armavir region which turned into beating during which L. Yeranosyan and M. Baboyan sustained the mentioned bodily injuries. Through investigation sufficient actual data were obtained on the allegation that during the same argument L. Yeranosyan fired a shot to the air with his gun. The site was inspected during which the gun of "Makarov" model was presented to the investigative body. In the framework of the mentioned case on the same day 5 persons were apprehended by the police, one more person surrendered himself. The clothes they had on at the moment of the incident were confiscated. In the presence of the lawyer those apprehended refused to give shot figment sample and explanations. The degree of sobriety of those apprehended was checked and pursuant to the inspection record they were sober. Lernik Yeranosyan gave an explanation and a report on the incident."