Task force enters Holy See of Etchmiadzin

ArmInfo. Masked special forces of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia entered the territory of the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. The security forces took away the journalists present in the courtyard.

, - wrote Hieromonk Asoghik  Karapetyan on the social network. , - he noted.

A little earlier, lawyer Ara Zohrabyan reported that the investigator  of the Investigative Committee made a decision to detain the head of  the Shirak Diocese, Archbishop Mikael Ajapakhyan, and then he will be  taken to arrest.

The criminal case was opened on June 17 of this year, based on a  signal received by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The reason for  the criminal case was an interview given by the bishop in February  2024 about allegedly public calls for the seizure of power and the  violent overthrow of the constitutional order, he continued. Let us  recall that on June 25, the Investigative Committee reported on the  preparation of terrorist acts with the aim of seizing power in  Armenia by members of the "Sacred Struggle". Large-scale searches  were conducted in the homes of the movement's leader Bagrat  Galstanyan and his supporters. That evening, the court arrested them.