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Court of General Jurisdiction of Shirak Marz chaired by judge Harutyun Movsesyan rejected the civil suit against Russia within the proceeding of Permyakov case.

To remind, earlier lawyer Aramazd Kiviryan, defending the interests of successors of the Avetisyan family, lodged a civil suit against the Russian Federation demanding compensation for moral damages at 450 000 Euros. The successors of Avetisyan family justified the suit by arguing Russia failed to meet its positive obligations by sending the soldier unfit for a military service, thus failing to prevent the crime.

At the previous hearing, the court took into consideration the suit and asked for a month to translate the suit into Russian.

To remind, V. Permaykov is charged under the Armenian Criminal Code’s Article 104 part 2 points 1, 5, and 8 (contract murder of two or more people committed with cruelty, for mercenary motives, and combined with extortion, robbery or banditry), Article 175 part 2 points 3 and 4 (robbery committed after a break-in, with the use of weapons or other objects used as a weapon), and Article 34-329 part 1 (an attempt to violate the state border of the Republic of Armenia without the necessary documents or permission). Permyakov pleaded guilty to the charges.

A Russian garrison military court held a hearing on August 12 in the Armenian city of Gyumri. The court sentenced Valery Permyakov to 10 years in high-security prison for desertion and theft of weapons. The murder case is being investigated separately by the Armenian side.

TO remind, on January 12, 2015 Valeri Permyakov was performing guard service with a rifle of AKA-74 model, 60 bullets of 5.45 mm caliber and a bayonet knife number 689 attached to him. At about 02:00 he voluntarily left the post and with the purpose of finding clothes and money walked around Gyumri. At about 06:00 getting to the house 188, Myasnikyan Street, Gyumri with the intend to steal somebody’s property, through banditry by using a weapon he entered the yard through the open gate, approached the house, through taking out the door glass with the bayonet knife and opening the door with a key which was on the lock from the inside, he illegally entered the mentioned house and with the intend to deprive two or more persons from life, he killed the residents of the same house Aida Avetisyan, Hasmik Avetisyan, Seryozha Avetisyan, Armen Avetisyan, Araqsya Poghosyan and the infant Hasmik Avetisyan with 28 point-blank shots fired from rifle of AKA-74.

Then with the intend to murder, he stabbed five times with the bayonet knife fixed to the rifle at vital organs of 6 month-old Seryozha Avetisyan lying helplessly at his mother’s lap. As a result the baby died in hospital seven days later.