On Palm Sunday, at around 3 p.m., another incident was recorded at the St. Anna Church with Nikol Pashinyan. Lawyer Ruben Melikyan announced this on his Facebook page.
He told the following story: “An 18-year-old boy named Mikael goes out to throw out the trash, sees the Prime Minister’s motorcade, approaches and spits on Nikol Pashinyan’s car. When they ask him why he did it, he says because the Turk sold our lands.”
Mikael is arrested on suspicion of hooliganism. I am involved a few hours later. During this time, when I was also a bit passive, it was due to this that I was visiting the child at the ZPV.
Today they invite us to the Erebuni department, they present the prosecutor’s decision, they qualify this as hooliganism. It is very interesting that not only the fact of spitting, but also the phrase “the Turk sold our lands” was taken as a basis. It is considered an element of hooliganism, an obscene expression.
Of course, I partially agree with the inaccuracy of the expression “the Turk sold our lands”, because in life the Turk does not sell his lands. Calling him a Turk is not right, it is unfair to the Turks. You cannot find such a character among the Turks, such a traitor.
But the prosecutor finds that it is an obscene expression.”
According to Ruben Melikyan, Mikael’s parents are decent people, he himself is an excellent student.
“I also educate my children that, dear children, do not spit, you cannot. Our children take a bad example from Alen Simonyan. He was bad in all matters, including in that matter, he was a bad student, a bad actor, he is very good at flattering himself.
If they brought Alen Simonyan’s guilty verdict and put it on the table, I would accept it, I would say, “Oh, I’m also being accused here, but what country is this?” In other words, Alen Simonyan spitting in a person’s face is not a crime, the child who expressed his position in that not very polite way, is that a crime? How can that be? Would that be obvious discriminatory treatment? The child sat for 48 hours.