March 05, 2013 | 02:31
PARIS. – The French Police transferred to the country’s attorney general’s office the petition with respect to the case of Azerbaijanis unlawfully entering the French parliament building, Armenian National Congress France Executive Director Hratch Varjabedian told Armenian News-NEWS.am.
“The attorney general’s office will inform, within one week, as to when the [respective] court hearings will commence. We certainly will take this matter all the way,” Varjabedian noted.
He also informed that the Azerbaijani lawbreakers are under police supervision.
As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, During the event that was held in commemoration of the victims of the 1988 Armenian pogroms in Sumgait, Azerbaijan, and which was held on February 26 in the French parliament, members of the Azerbaijani delegation refused to pay respects—with a minute silence—to the victims and, instead, exclaimed that they will pay their respects solely to the victims of the Khojaly massacre in 1992. This statement displeased the Armenian delegates and, as a result, a clash broke out, but the police intervened. Azerbaijan’s ambassador to France arrived immediately after the incident and condemned what occurred. It is possible, however, that this provocation was planned because Azerbaijani TV crews likewise were on hand at the event.