The residents of Georgia’s Vachiani village demand from the law enforcement authorities to take measures toward solving the criminal case into the murder of the four members of the Armenian Kachotyan family of the village.

The Vachiani villagers staged a protest outside the Akhalkalaki District Police Department, and demanded to meet with the district police chief; but no one approached the demonstrators.

Vachiani school teacher Mrs. Alina told Armenian NEWS.am that there is nothing new regarding the criminal case months later, and the relatives of the Kachotyan family are concerned that the criminal case may be dropped due to the suicide of the defendant in this case.

Nodar Akopov, who was charged with these murders, had committed suicide in prison, on August 27.

The Kachotyan’s relatives claim that Akopov could not have committed these murders all by himself, there were others with him, but they are not yet revealed.

Four members of the Kachotyan family—the 37-year-old mother as well as her 5-, 13-, and 18-year-old children—were found dead in their home in the aforesaid village in Javakheti—a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province, by their relatives, on July 10.

According to preliminary information, the assailant had killed the mother and her daughters with a blunt instrument, whereas strangled the boy to death. 

The table and chairs of the house were lying on the floor, and the house was sooty with smoke.

The father of the family, Vaghinak Kachotyan, was in Russia as a migrant worker.

To note, a recently opened Turkish-Georgian border checkpoint is nearby the said primarily-Armenian-populated village.