Armenians of France will hold a protest action near Azerbaijani Embassy in Paris on Tuesday, head of the Hay Dat (Armenian Cause) office in France Hrachya Varzhapetian told Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The event will bring together tens of thousands of French Armenians who will express their indignation at pardoning Ramil Safarov and also the policy carried out by Azerbaijan on Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

As to Azerbaijani community’s plans to hold an action near the Armenian Embassy on the same day, Varzhapetian said the municipality permitted the “action in support for Ilham Aliyev”.

“Their president needs support. This testifies to weakness and uncertainty in the rightness of Aliyev’s actions. We are not afraid of their protest action and, today, all will see the qualitative and quantitative difference between the events,” he noted.

“French media is attentively following the events on Safarov’s case. Besides, the Hay Dat office has appealed to the Senate, politicians for them to express their position on pardon of the murderer,” Varzhapetian concluded.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Ramil Safarov, a lieutenant in the Azerbaijani military, was extradited on August 31 from Hungary, where he was serving a life sentence—and with no expression of either regret or remorse—for the premeditated axe murder of Armenian lieutenant Gurgen Margaryan, in his sleep, during a NATO Partnership for Peace program in Budapest back in 2004.

As expected, Ramil Safarov’s return to Baku was welcomed, as was his act of murder, by the officials of president Ilham Aliyev’s government and much of Azerbaijani society, and the Azerbaijani president immediately granted him a pardon.

Armenia’s President Serzh Sargsyan announced on August 31 that Armenia is suspending its diplomatic ties with Hungary.