YEREVAN. – From the very beginning, the Armenian Foreign Ministry did not take appropriate steps on the case of a truck driver Hrachya Harutyunyan, head of Greek Armenians organization said.

To note, a truck crashed into a passenger bus on July 13 outside Moscow, and it was found out that the truck driver was an Armenian citizen by the name of Hrachya Harutyunyan.

The accident claimed 18 lives and about 50 others were hospitalized. Hrachya was brought to the courtroom with slippers and a women’s robe. This fact caused widespread discontent among the Armenian public, and protests were staged across the Russian Embassy in Armenia.

Eduard Polatov, Karabakh war veteran and chairman of organization of Greeks of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, said Russian law enforcers that were conducting preliminary investigation and Armenian diplomatic representation in Russia are responsible for everything that happened in Moscow court.

Another participant of the press conference, the chairman of the Assyrians’ Union of Armenia Razmik Khosroyev said that it is the matter of human rights.

“The positive fact is that the society was able to raise a voice for the Armenian. For the first Armenian felt that the state is behind him,” he said.

Representative of the Yezidi community Amo Sharoyan expressed his condolences to the families of 18 victims. 

“Different types of expertise should prove whether the driver was guilty. In this case, the presumption of innocence was violated by both law enforcers and media representatives,” he said.