ArmInfo. Armenian Prosecutor General's office considers the police actions in respect to Zaruhi Postandjyan, the mayor candidate, as legitimate. " There was no force implementation, there we only operative actions, which are legitimate at least from the point of Criminal procedures Coode," Sevak Hovhannisyan, the Vice Head of the Important Investigations Department stated on may 14 in Yerevan.
According to him, the appropriate video recording is in the focus of the Prosecutor's General office working group attention, which has studied the situation in online mood. The representative of the entity promised to come out with comments based on results of control arrangements with video recording. "It is early to make any legal conclusions, those are subject to be done only after having appropriate material prepared and certain data obtained," he stated.
Meanwhile, according to Hovhannisyan, the actions of police were legitimate - " they asked all the people who had not right to be at the pre electoral office, to abandon it, despite any political status" Today in Yerevan community of Avan the police used violence to lawmaker Zaruhi Postandjyan, the candidate for mayor's post, who, in accordance with Armenian regulations, has an immunity status. Particularly, several policemen forcibly pushed Postandjyan out of the electoral office of Republican Party in Avan, and pulled her to the police car. All the attempts of Postandjyan to escape were in vain, three officers held her tightly and kept on pulling to the car. Law maker's shouts and protests . However, policemen could not force her to sit in the car, but her daughter has been taken to the police station of Nor Nork. All the attempts of ArmInfo to get an official comment from the Police if the actions of police officers were legitimate, have not succeed by now.