Armenia`s premier proposes awarding law-enforcers who prevented coup  d`etat

ArmInfo.  Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan considers it reasonable to reward employees of law enforcement agencies (the National Security Service, the Prosecutor's  Office, the Investigative Committee, the police), to nominate them  for state awards, who helped prevent a coup d'etat. The Prime  Minister stated this on June 26 at a government meeting. , - he noted, pointing out that this morning he discussed this  issue with the President of the Republic of Armenia. , - the head of the Cabinet said.

Pashinyan drew attention to the public reaction on social networks,  where parallels are drawn with the terrorist attack in the Armenian  parliament on October 27, 1999. , the Prime Minister  concluded.

On June 25, law enforcement officers began searching the homes of  supporters of the Sacred Struggle movement and individuals with  opposition views. The Investigative Committee issued a statement  according to which the participants and leaders of the movement were  allegedly planning terrorist attacks and the seizure of power in  Armenia. According to the Investigative Committee, a number of  people, including former police officers and military personnel,  participated in the planning. Sixteen people were detained on charges  of attempting to "seize power," including the movement's leader,  Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan. Nine people, including the Archbishop,  were arrested for two months. It should be noted that the detentions  began a day after the Armenian Prime Minister announced that a coup  d'etat was allegedly being prepared in the country. As opposition  deputies of the Hayastan parliamentary faction stated, the weapons  presented by the Investigative Committee in support of the version of  an impending terrorist attack were legal, and the cartridges were  spent. In addition, the published photo of documents (lists of  recruited people, action plan), as it later turned out, related to  2024.