Minister of Justice: Both sides participating in the brawl in the  Council of Elders of Yerevan behaved improperly

ArmInfo. Both sides participating in the brawl in the Council of Elders of Yerevan behaved in an inappropriately manner. This was stated on February 20 at a press  conference by the Minister of Justice, Republican David Harutyunyan.

"As the Minister of Justice of Armenia,  I condemn any actions  involving elements of violence," he said, adding that it is not  proper for a member of the Council of Elders to bring chemical banks  with him to meetings, and it is not for men,  to behave so rudely  with a woman.

"Such behavior is unacceptable for our culture, and it remains to be  hoped that such incidents will no longer take place in our society,  let alone in the Yerevan Council of Elders," the Minister of Justice  said.  According to the politician, the main way out of any situation  is to find a compromise through dialogue.

It should be noted that an extraordinary incident occurred in the  Council of Elders of Yerevan on February 13. A member of the  opposition Yerkir Tsirani party, Marina Khachatryan, brought a bank  with a chemical substance to the meeting and tried to put it on the  table of Taron Margaryan, who presides at the meeting.  However,  Markaryan, realizing the danger threatening him, ordered the members  of the Republican Party faction to stop Khachatryan and to take a  bank with a dangerous substance from her. Members of the Yerkir  Tsirani fraction tried to prevent this, and they shouted that the  deputies of the Council of Elders should breathe the same poisoned  air as the residents of Yerevan breathe. As a result, men from the  RPA faction attacked the women of the Yerkir Tsirani with their  fists, inflicting beatings and slaps. 

The members of the Yelq faction interfered in the case, and tried to  separate the heated elders. After the incident, representatives of  the Yerkir Tsirani party appealed to the law enforcement entities  demanding  to initiate a criminal investigation into the attack on  its members by the representatives of the Republican Party.