Russian soldier Permyakov was sentenced to life in Armenia

The Court of the Shirak region of Armenia during an exit meeting at the 102nd Russian military base in Gyumri sentenced the 20-year-old Russian-bearing soldier Valery Permyakov, who cut out a family from seven local residents to life imprisonment. It is reported by Radio Azatutyun.

Permyakov was found guilty under paragraphs 1, 5, 8 of part 2 of Article 104 (murder of two or more persons committed with special cruelty from selfish motives), paragraphs 3, 4 of Article 175 (robbery with illegal penetration and use of weapons) and part 2 of Article 34 - Article 329 of the Criminal Code of Armenia (attempt to cross the state border).

In the debate of the parties, the prosecutor also demanded for Permyakov a life sentence - the highest punishment existing in Armenia.

The defendant himself fully pleaded guilty. On August 19, he refused the last word.

Meanwhile, human rights activist Arthur Sakuntz, representing the successors of the victims of Permyakov, said in the debate that during the last nine months of the trial, the crime was not fully disclosed. He, in particular, noted that he did not believe in the version, according to which the soldier killed the Avetisyan family in order to steal 6 thousand dramas. Consequently, Sakuntz concluded, the motive of the crime was not established.

On the night of January 12, 2015, Permyakov, having left the location of the 102nd base, came to the house of the Avetisyan family not familiar to him and shot five adults aged 24 to 55 years from Kalashnikov, and two children - two -year -old ASMIC and half a year Seryozha - struck the bayonet -knife. All victims died on the spot, except for a half -year -old baby. He was delivered, but on January 19, Seryozha died in the hospital.

On the night of January 13, Russian border guards detained Permyakov while trying to cross the Armenian-Turkish border. The Armenian side, including under the pressure of mass protests of local residents , demanded the issuance of Permyakov and the trial of it according to its own laws. Russia refused to give the suspect, referring to its constitution.

Nevertheless, on June 26, after the start of protests in Armenia against raising electricity tariffs, the country's president Serzh Sargsyan met with the Minister of Transport of Russia, co-chairman of the Armenian-Russian intergovernmental commission, Maxim Sokolov, and agreed that the murder made by Permyakov will be transferred to the Armenian side . The transfer of materials took place on July 18.

At the same time, materials on desertion and theft of weapons were allocated from the case in a separate production and were considered by the Russian 5th garrison military court (Yerevan). On August 12, 2015, this court, during an exit meeting at the 102nd base, sentenced Permyakov to 10 years of strict regime . The defendant was found guilty under Articles 338 (desertion with weapons), 226 (theft of weapons and ammunition) and 222 of the Criminal Code of Russia (illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition). At that time, he also pleaded guilty, and in addition, he declared repentance.

On May 27, 2016, the Avetisyan family successors filed a civil lawsuit in the amount of 450 thousand euros to Russia. As the lawyer Aramazd Kiviryan pointed out, before transferring to Armenia, Permyakov many times unauthorizedly left the unit. Along with this, the lawyer noted that, according to the imprisonment of the examination, a person who had certain mental deviations was sent to the service abroad. In addition, the commanders of Permyakov, knowing about these problems, nevertheless considered it possible to give him weapons. Finally, Kiviryan noticed that the Russian side told Armenian about the desertion of the soldier after a relatively large period of time after the discovery of the fact itself.