Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan: I am very pleased for the people, but not for the police

We are going to Sardarapat to celebrate Independence Day; we did not steal it from anyone, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said.

“We have celebrated it for years. There will be a celebration there. I went there when I was a student, when people did not know where Sardarapat was located,” Archbishop Bagrat said.

Referring to today’s protests, Archbishop Bagrat noted that he was very pleased for the people, but not for the police, because they behaved badly.

“Thirty of them beat one person; they broke a boy’s head for signaling. I have also heard that officers of special forces are dressed in regular police uniforms and that they are paid 40,000 drams a week,” he noted.

To remind, earlier, Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan said they would go to Sardarapat Memorial dedicated to the victory of the Armenian people over the regular Turkish army in 1918, stay there overnight and celebrate Independence Day of the First Republic of Armenia.