The religion teacher of the Artashat town N1 school, Naira Mezhlumyan, slapped one of the three dozen 9-graders who\u2019ve been boycotting classes in protest of Serzh Sargsyan\u2019s PM appointment. The student\u2019s uncle went to school and took down Sargsyan\u2019s photo from the school wall, after which headmaster Tina Margaryan filed a crime report with the police, alleging that the student\u2019s uncle had slapped her.<\/p>\n
The man was taken into custody at the Artashat police department on Friday; his phone has since been unreachable, a relative of the family informed us, asking not to publish any names.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe striking students were warned outside the school yesterday that they still had exams to pass and should reconsider their behavior. Then Mezhlumyan slapped my cousin so hard that her fingerprints remained on his face. One of the parents asked the teacher why she had slapped the kid and she replied, \u2018He\u2019s not your kid, is he? Why do you feel bad for him?\u2019 All of this happened right in front of police officers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey locked the kids inside the school and called their parents. They stressed that only their fathers should go. One of them told the headmaster, \u2018When the \u201888 earthquake happened, we were able to leave the school premises. Now, God forbid, an earthquake happens\u2026 Why do you keep the kids locked inside?\u2019 The headmaster pointed to the picture of Serzh Sargsyan on the wall and said the ordered had come from the tops. The kid\u2019s uncle then took down the photo and threw it away. Now a criminal case has been launched against the man on the allegation that he has hit the headmaster. That\u2019s a lie; she has filed the report to make us withdraw our complaint about the slap. When we were filing the slap complaint, the police reprimanded us saying that we shouldn’t be filing a crime report for a slap.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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