“He behaved very strangely. He recognized us but showed no reaction. He didn`t look like himself. I had heard that he was inadequate… but I could not believe my own eyes when I saw him,” Harutyunyan said.
The brother-in-law said they were not allowed to go near Andranik and communicated with him through a glass window. Military authorities, he added, have assured them that the soldier will be cleared of desertion charges if he is diagnosed with mental disorders. “He saw his parents and did not react in any way to them. As if he was not even glad to see us. Doctors examine him every 5-10 days, but we`re not very hopeful. He`d say things like `There`s a new cableway in our village, have you ridden it yet?` or `I wanted to go for a swim in the Caspian Sea, but the Turks did not let me.` I`ve always had an injured hand, and he tells me `When did you cut your hand? Does it hurt?`”
Grigoryan`s service contract was due to expire one month after his crossing into Azerbaijan, Harutyunyan said, so “desertion is ruled out.” “He had signed a 3-year contract and it was due to expire in a month. We`re expecting a public defender from Yerevan. We`ll have to wait and see what happens.”
Note, on March 22, the serviceman of the Armenian Armed Forces, Andranik Araratovich Grigoryan, born in Khojavand district in 1991, left the military unit and surrendered to the Azerbaijani side.
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