The names of the attorneys, who have been assigned to the legal heirs of the Avetisyan family who were murdered in Armenia’s Gyumri city, have become known.   

Armenian News-NEWS.am has learned that one of these public defenders is Tamara Baghdasaryan whom, however, we could not contact.

Separately, the legal heirs have already reached an agreement with attorney Yerem Sargsyan, and he likewise will get involved with this case as of February 2. He had said earlier that he will defend their interests on a volunteer basis. 

We have not yet been able to find out the names of the other public defenders who are assigned to some of the legal heirs of the slain Avetisyan family. 

Legal heirs Yegor Adamyan, Lusine Avetisyan, and Rita Petrosyan have been assigned public defenders, whereas the interests of the other legal heirs will be represented by the attorneys who will get involved with the case on a volunteer basis.

As reported earlier, six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12; and the baby boy died in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in the city, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border on the same night, he was arrested on January 14, and he is held in custody at the Russian military base.

The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” And on January 21, the Investigative Committee of Armenia also filed a criminal charge against Permyakov, and with “premeditated murder of two or more persons.” The Russian soldier has accepted the charge.