In Yerevan
As a skillful tribune, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pachinian, had nevertheless chosen his words well.
To announce his decision to sign a ceasefire with the Azerbaijani enemy under the aegis of Russia, he underlined how “
terribly painful
” it was for him to endorse the nine points of the text, before “s
'kneel
(symbolically) in
front of all our martyrs
'.
But on the night of Monday to Tuesday, ten minutes after posting his statement on Twitter and Facebook, the first cars landed in the center of Yerevan, engines roaring and horns loudly.
In front of the seat of government, Place de la République, a thousand or so demonstrators gathered, determined to
"hold Nikol to account".
In the absence of the person concerned, these demonstrators entered the building, waltzed chairs and tables.
In the absence of Nikol, it was the President of the National Assembly, Ararat Mirzoïan, who was attacked by the crowd and severely molested, while he
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