The coordination headquarters, which has been set up in connection with the investigation of the recent brutal murders in Armenia’s Gyumri city, is a mutually-coordinated center of operations.

Sona Truzyan, the adviser to the chairman of the Investigative Committees of Armenia, told about the aforementioned to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

The organization has no leader, and there are ten representatives, each, from Armenia and Russia in this headquarters. The deputies of the heads of the Investigative Committees of Armenia and Russia also are included in this command center.   

To the query on how the decisions will be made at this headquarters, Truzyan explained that its actions will be mutually coordinated, and if problems arise, they will be resolved within the framework of the international law and agreement.

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; but the baby boy died in hospital on Monday.

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.” The Investigative Committee of Armenia also has launched a criminal case on these murders.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Armenia had stated that Valery Permyakov will face justice under Russian law, and this information had provoked a wave of protests in Armenia, especially in Gyumri and capital city Yerevan.