Azerbaijani Saboteur's Cheap Attempts to Justify His Crime

Recently, it was reported that the commander of the Russian peacekeeping forces in Nagorno-Karabakh, Lieutenant General Rustam Muradov, visited the captured Azerbaijani serviceman Jamil Babayev held in Artsakh. Following the incident, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defense resorted to labeling him as a mentally ill person who had fled from Ganja. It appears that the defense is determined to stick to this narrative in an attempt to mitigate the forthcoming punishment. Otherwise, it is impossible to explain Babayev's inappropriate behavior during his meeting with Muradov.

Babayev deliberately pretended to be disoriented. His attempt to justify himself is as cheap and foolish as any attempt to accuse the Armenian side of provocations or violations of the ceasefire. Azerbaijan is not believed either in Artsakh or in Armenia, reports Инфотека 24.

Recall that on August 25, Azerbaijani soldier Jamil Babayev entered one of the houses in Martakert, where only two teenage children were present at the time, threatening to demand food and cigarettes. He was given bread, after which one of the teenagers promised to go to the store to buy cigarettes and left the house. The boy did not lose his composure and called the police. After some time, law enforcement arrived and took the uninvited guest away.

Subsequently, the Azerbaijani side circulated information that Babayev had escaped from a psychiatric hospital in Ganja (about 140 km from Martakert) and ended up on the Armenian side. On August 28, serviceman Jamil Babayev was charged under Article 350, Part 1, Article 316, Article 145, Part 1, Article 135, Part 1, and Article 133, Part 2, Sections 2, 3, 4, and 6 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Artsakh (for illegal crossing of the border, threats of murder against minors, and apparent signs of espionage). His measure of restraint has been chosen as detention. The investigation continues.