YEREVAN. – The Vahe Avetyan civil initiative has issued an official statement after a memorial plaque  was stolen.

In their statement, members of the initiative demanded that police must launch an investigation and find those who stole the plaque. They will appeal to the Yerevan municipality for a permission to install memorial stone to Vahe Avetyan.

The memorial plaque disappeared on June 29. It was installed near Harsnaqar restaurant on the anniversary of Vahe’s death.

As informed earlier, an incident had occurred at Armenian capital city Yerevan’s Harsnaqar Restaurant Complex on June 17, 2012. Several military doctors, including Edgar Mikoyan, Arkadi Aghajanyan, Garik Soghomonyan, Artak Bayadyan and Vahe Avetyan, were brutally beaten by Harsnaqar security personnel, and Avetyan, 35, died in hospital on June 29.

Subsequently, a criminal lawsuit was filed into this incident, and six people stand trial.

The Restaurant’s owner is ruling Republican Party former MP, Football Federation of Armenia President, and businessman Ruben Hayrapetyan, who formally gave up his parliamentary seat in connection with this incident. But as per Avetyan’s relatives and the active civil society, Hayrapetyan himself should be brought to account for the killing of the military officer.