{"id":281215,"date":"2017-06-21T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/epress.am\/?p=281215"},"modified":"2017-06-21T12:00:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:00:30","slug":"yerevan-judge-reminds-police-officers-about-their-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2017\/06\/21\/yerevan-judge-reminds-police-officers-about-their-duties.html","title":{"rendered":"Yerevan Judge Reminds Police Officers About Their Duties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Yerevan\u2019s Shengavit district court on Tuesday held another hearing<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> on the Mansuryans\u2019 family axing case, during which police officer Arsen Mkhoyan testified that on the day of the incident he, along with his colleague Davit Varosyan, had been given an order to see Taguhi Mansuryan and her mother, Karine Mansuryan, home.<\/p>\n

Recall, on July 8, 2016, Vladik Martirosyan attacked his former wife Taguhi Mansuryan and her parents, axing his former mother-in-law to death and leaving Mansuryan and her father severely injured. In his pre-trial testimony, however, the defendant claimed<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/strong> that his actions had not been premeditated and that he had \u201conly taken away the axe from Vachagan Mansuryan in self-defense.\u201d Meanwhile, speaking to reporters after the tragic incident, Taguhi Mansuryan had said her former spouse had repeatedly threatened her and her family in the past, and the attack therefore \u201cwas not a big surprise.<\/p>\n

Officer Mkhoyan said in court yesterday that upon arriving at the Mansuryans\u2019 building, his colleague Varosyan got of the car to open the door for the women and looked around to make sure that there was nothing dangerous in sight. Mkhoyan claimed that Taguhi and her mother had neither asked them to accompany them home nor look around to see whether Vladik Martirosyan was in the area: \u201cThey got out of the car, thanked us and entered the building. They never asked us to see them to their door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Some time later, the officer went on, when they were about to leave the area, they heard voices coming from the building. \u201cWe immediately got out of the car and saw a man of about 50 pushing Martirosyan out of the building. At the moment Martirosyan was saying something like \u2018I should have also taken the third one!\u2019\u201d Mkhoyan said.<\/p>\n

Presiding judge Davit Balayan then asked the officer whether it was common for him to receive orders to accompany people home, to which Mkhoyan replied that \u201cit happens very rarely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I understand you work for the police and not a taxi service. When you are ordered to see people home, you should not just drop them off at a building. The point is that you accompany people, how do you not get that? How could you have just dropped them off an left?\u201d the judge commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As far as I understand you work for the police and not a taxi service. When you are ordered to see people home, you should not just …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":281199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[66033,65974],"tags":[16570,65104,65105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}