President’s Spokesman: “Yes, the incident did happen”
Unfortunately, the incident did happen, Armen Arzumanyan, Armenian President’s Spokesman declared referring to the recent events over Mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan.
President’s Spokesman was particularly asked: “Media broadly covers the news that Mayor of Yerevan has raped and brutally beat a member of President’s protocol officer who has been authorized to implement his official duties.”
Armen Arzumanyan said: “Yes, unfortunately, the incident did happen. But our media have exaggerated the event describing it, particularly; there was no rape and no brutal beating. But the incident happened.”