Armenia determined to ensure full probe into killing of 6 in Gyumri - minister
YEREVAN. Jan 16 (Interfax) - Investigators will work consistently and will do all they can to fully and impartially solve the criminal case opened against Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is accused of killing six people in Gyumri, Armenia, says Hovhannes Manukyan, the Armenian justice minister.
"Everything possible will be done to bring the investigation into the killing of six people in Gyumri by a Russian military serviceman to a logical end," the Armenian Justice Ministry quoted Manukyan as saying at a meeting with French Ambassador to Armenia Jean-Francois Charpentier.
"The Armenian authorities and the entire justice system will be consistent in this matter," he said.
The French diplomat offered his condolences regarding the tragedy in Gyumri and said he hoped the man who committed the crime would be punished in accordance with his crime, the ministry said.
Six people, members of the same family, including a two-year-old child, were killed in Gyumri in western Armenia on January 12. The seventh victim, a six-month-old child, Sergei Avetisian, survived the attack but was hospitalized in a critical condition.
Valery Permyakov, a serviceman from the Russian 102nd Military Base stationed in Gyumri, was detained soon afterwards on suspicion of the murders and is being held at the base. Armenia and Russia officially indicted him in line with their Criminal Codes on January 14.