Nearly 150 protesters gathered on Wednesday near the building of prefecture of Drôme in Valence to protest against Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s visit to France, Nouvelles d`Arménie reported. Several officials were present at the protest action.

As reported earlier, French-Armenians held a major protest action in front of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Paris on Tuesday against pardoning Azeri murderer Ramil Safarov. Over 2,000 people along with French MPs participate in the protest.

Armenian News-NEWS.am reported earlier that Azeri murderer 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.