Epress.am News from Armenia
Yerevan mayor's advisor Arayik Qotanjyan's son, Samvel Qotanjyan, who fired shots on June 6 in the Kanaker-Zeytun district of Yerevan, was released upon a signed guarantee that he will not flee the country, RA Police press service employee Armen Malkhasyan informed Epress.am.
Samvel Kotanjyan turned himself into police on June 10. He produced his unregistered 9mm Makarov pistol and said that on June 6, he fired several shots with this gun in the yard of 74 Karapet Ulnetsi St. He was then arrested.
Police launched a criminal investigation under charges of RA Criminal Code Article 235 Section 1 (illegal possession, handling, and use of weapons and ammunition) and Article 258 Section 4 (hooliganism committed with a weapon).
Note, in Armenia, only in exceptional cases do police release suspects on bail or signed guarantees. Suspects, by and large, are kept in pre-trial detention regardless of whether the nature of their crime was serious or not.
Filmmaker Tigran Paskevichyan's film "72 Hours After Release. Measure of Constraint: Detention" [in Armenian only] addresses this topic.