Forces attack demonstrators outside embassy
Heritage Party Parliament Member Anahit Bakshyan is among those who have been beaten outside the French Embassy. ArmeniaNow reporters witnessed the oppositionist MP being kicked and clubbed. Bakshyan’s driver tells ArmeniaNow that the MP was not injured in the confrontation.
As tension grows outside the embassy, an ArmeniaNow reporter working on the scene also witnessed as a 73-old-woman pensioner, demanding a “rule-of-law country”, tried to approach Ombudsman Armen Harutyunyan. The woman was hit by one of the police and her nose began to bleed.
Earlier here, police formed a defense line and separated the crowd into two groups, with one group near the embassy and the other near the Office of the Mayor of Yerevan.
People from the crowd behaved aggressively towards police forces, tensioning the atmosphere and trying to get into another skirmish.
Police forces expanded the perimeter urging protestors to move to the stadium after Vazgen Sargsyan. At least one shot into the air was made.