Syrian mercenary Youssef El Abdel El Haji indicted and requested to  arrest him

ArmInfo.The Investigative Committee of Armenia continues a preliminary investigation into the case of aggression unleashed by the military-political leadership of the Republic of Azerbaijan on the Artsakh-Azerbaijan line of contact. This was reported by the press service of the UK.

The IC of Armenia presented a video of the interrogation of a Syrian  mercenary who was taken prisoner in Artsakh. Syrian citizen Yusef El  Abdel El Haji, who participated in hostilities on the side of  Azerbaijan, was detained.

Al Haji said in the course that he lived in the Syrian province of  Idlib, he is married with 5 minor children.  A man came to his home  who made an offer to go to Azerbaijan for money in order to  participate in a three-month military exercise on the condition that  he would be paid $ 2,000 a month.

The recruitment was carried out in Sarafin, Saham, Al Ziyedi and  other Syrian settlements, the mercenaries were specially warned not  to take an identity document, a mobile phone. They were taken to the  Bab al- Salam checkpoint in Syria, which the Syrian mercenary said is  under the control of Abu Khamshi and his militants. Brother Abu  Khamshi-Seif, recruited 500 people aged 20 to 40, who were warned in  advance that after a trip to Azerbaijan, no one would be allowed to  return until the term expired. Then, the finally recruited above 500  recruits without hindrance, without checking the identity documents  by Turkish law enforcement officers, passed through the above border  checkpoint on the border of Syria and Turkey, got on buses and,  accompanied by the Turkish military, went to one of the civilian  airports in Turkey, from there by plane with a Turkish flag to  another civil airport, after which, again without checking identity  documents, they boarded a civil plane with an Azerbaijani flag and  went to Azerbaijan, to a civil airport.  Here they were met by the  military in the uniform of the Turkish army, as well as the Armed  Forces of Azerbaijan, and again without checking the identity of the  arrivals, they were taken by buses to the military unit, where there  were both Azerbaijani and Turkish soldiers. In the indicated military  unit, they were given necklaces with numbers, uniforms of light and  dark blue, and weapons, including knives. Three days later, the  mercenaries were transferred to another location. According to the  information received, the leader of this group of mercenaries was a  man named Sheikh Ibrahim, under the leadership of the latter they  were transferred to another military unit, where there were another  500 Syrian Arabs who had arrived to fight for money, as well as  Turkish-Azerbaijani soldiers. In the military unit, they were divided  into 10 groups, the composition and number of which was determined by  Abu Khamsha, who is the main leader of the indicated military unit  and mercenaries transferred from Syria to Azerbaijan. The latter,  announcing that they would fight against the Armenians, gave  instructions not to spare any of the Armenians in the event of an  attack, to "slaughter" them all and kill them. They also received  such instructions from the Turkish- Azerbaijani military in the  military unit. According to Youssef El Abed El Haji, they were  promised $ 100 for each Armenian beheaded. Early in the morning on  the seventh day of their stay in this military unit, at 4 o'clock  they moved to the Artsakh-Azerbaijan contact line, where Sheikh  Ibrahim ordered them to attack the neighboring Armenian village,  capture it and behead all civilians and soldiers there. However,  during the attack, they came under fire from the Armenian side,  leaving 15 killed and fled. During the operation, Yusef was wounded,  in such a state he stayed in the field for three days, until he was  captured by Armenian soldiers. The aforementioned factual data, in  combination with other evidence, confirm the existence of clearly  operating criminal schemes for the mass recruitment of mercenaries in  various parts of Syria to be involved in military operations against  Artsakh as part of the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan in exchange for  material compensation, as well as the commission of crimes motivated  by national hatred. transfer to Azerbaijan through Turkey and with  the participation of the armed forces of the latter, illegal  involvement in the Armed Forces of Azerbaijan and ensuring their  participation in hostilities with the aim of committing acts of a  mainly terrorist nature.

According to the source, on October 31, proceedings were initiated in  the Investigative Committee of Armenia under Articles 389  (International terrorism - Ed.), 390 (Serious violations of  international humanitarian law during armed conflicts - Ed.), 395  (Mercenaryism - Ed.) Articles of the RA Criminal Code. A motion to  arrest the latter was submitted to a court of general jurisdiction.