Friday, February 12 2021 14:01

ArmInfo. Who benefits from the desecration of the monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust in Yerevan, asks blogger Alesander Lapshin, responding to the act of vandalism in the center of Yerevan.

"An interesting observation: twice in my memory over the past year in Yerevan, a monument to the victims of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust among Jews was desecrated. Once again tonight. And what is remarkable is that in Azerbaijan these incidents are being discussed in closed groups even BEFORE the information appeared in the Armenian media. How do they find out about this earlier than the residents of Yerevan themselves? Then it appears in the Azerbaijani media as if on command, in everyone at once, promptly translated into English and Russian and replicated. As Roman law says, "Tell me who benefits and I'll tell you who is behind it. "

What am I all for? Video cameras should be installed near the monument to the victims of the Holocaust.  And near the Yerevan synagogue too. And it makes sense to take the leaders of the Jewish community under protection - provocations against them are also not excluded. And rest assured, after some time, the police will have very interesting subjects, whose phones, at best, will have correspondence with a curator from Baku, who tells him when to commit an act of vandalism, or it will turn out to be "neighbors" with fake Armenian passports. In any case, the police will have something to do, since they may not be limited to vandalism, but will easily engage in terrorism if there is a team, "the blogger stated.  It is worth noting that law enforcement officers are already dealing with this issue, and they assure that the perpetrators will be brought to justice.

In turn, the Yerevan City Hall reported that the monument is already being cleaned. "Of course, this is a disgusting act. I hope the law enforcement officers will be consistent in identifying these persons," Hakob Karapetyan, press secretary of the Yerevan Municipality, wrote on Facebook.

Moreover, Armenian lawmakers reacted to the incident. For example, Alen Simonyan, a deputy from the ruling My Step bloc, strongly condemned the act of vandalism. "This manifestation of vandalism is nothing more than a crime against universal human values. The incident must be thoroughly investigated, and the perpetrators must be held accountable in order to exclude and prevent the recurrence of such cases in the future. Such vicious phenomena are devoid of moral grounds and should not have a place in a society that has survived genocide and is a champion of the fight against this crime, "Simonyan said in a Facebook statement.

We would also like to remind you that even during the last hostilities in the zone of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the Israeli intelligentsia expressed concern about the growth of anti-Semitism due to excessive support, we provide Israel to the Azerbaijani side during the war.