The Armenian police have detained seven people who gathered in Mashtots Park on Tuesday to protest against the decision to rename the park into Missak Manouchian Park, says a press statement by the Preparliament.
"The young people insisted that some other place in Yerevan be named after Manouchian," says the Preparliament.
It was the visit of French President Francois Hollande to Yerevan that gave the local authorities an occasion to decide to give Mashtots Park the name of Missak Manouchian, a hero of the French Resistance.