Scuffle took place between the Armenian police and supporters of the “New Armenia” Public Salvation Front, which was staging a sit-in in Yerevan’s Liberty Square. Consequently, one elderly man suffered injuries. Member of the “Rise up, Armenia” initiative and sit-in participant, Gagik Yeghiazaryan told, AzVision.az reports citing Armenian media.
`Workers of A.Spendiarian National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet, asked them to remove the banner reading “New Armenia” for four hours. The sit-in participants agreed, but today the police officers didn’t allow them to fix the banner back, as a result of which scuffle took place between the police and the sit-in participants`, he said.
“Grandpa Pargev felt bad: he got an injury on his neck. I provided medical assistance and he went home,” Yeghiazaryan said.
The activist also said that when they tried to clarify the issue with the workers of the theatre, the latter said they asked to remove the banner not temporarily but once and for all, since the building is a historical and cultural monument.
The supporters of the “New Armenia” Public Salvation Front demand to cancel the results of the constitutional referendum held in Armenian on December 6.
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