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Karabakh War Veteran Chased by a Car After Demonstrating Outside Covered Market in Yerevan

Coordinator of the Pre-Parliament civil initiative, Karabakh war veteran Jirair Sefilian was pursued by a silver BMW late on Wednesday night when he was returning home from the Pre-Parliament headquarters located at 5/5 Alek Manukyan, according to a statement issued by the group.

He was able to see only part of the license plate number: 24 MU.

According to the Pre-Parliament statement, the incident occured near Sefilian's home in Yerevan's Zeitoun neighborhood. The chase lasted about half an hour, from 11:40 pm to 12:10 am.

The same day, at around 4 pm, during the demonstration outside the Covered Market, Sefilian was approached by someone claiming to represent the owner of the Covered Market, oligarch Samvel Aleksanyan, and attempted to have a private conversation with him, but having his request refused, the man who identified himself only as "Rubo" left. "Rubo" had been sitting in the same car with Samvel Aleksanyan and had approached Sefilian after coming out of that car, reads the statement.

The Pre-Parliament secretariat notes: "The time and resource of cheap tricks of criminals enjoying the patronage of a criminal and anti-nationalist regime has expired. From now on, our people will stand up for its country and impose its will on the anti-national regime and its criminal puppets."