More than 230 people have expressed a desire to participate in Saturday’s public debate in Armenia’s second largest city of Gyumri, and devoted to the recent family tragedy that occurred in the city.

The chairman of the Board of the “Asparez” Journalists’ Club, Levon Barseghyan, who is also an organizer of this event, informed about the aforementioned.

“Sixty people are now participating, and they continue to come from [capital city] Yerevan and the other regions,” Barseghyan added.

Aside from conferring on matters in connection with the tragic murder of the Avetisyan family, the discussants will also develop a plan addressed to the Armenian authorities, and with respect to providing guarantees for avoiding such crimes in the future.

The public debate has brought together human rights activists, attorneys, and numerous other concerned people.

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 Gyumri, 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 charges.