Sona Mnatsakanyan's Father Demands 10 Million Drams from Court for Compensation

It is also necessary to ensure safety for bystanders; are bystanders not citizens of the Republic of Armenia, that safety should be provided for them? What does it mean to ensure safety? This was stated by the father of Sona Mnatsakanyan, the pregnant woman who died as a result of a hit-and-run by a vehicle in Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's motorcade, during a conversation with journalists after the court session, addressing the speed of the convoy.

"There is an accepted expression: a lawyer can defend his client in every possible way, but I am not speaking about moral norms; the lawyer has bypassed those norms and did not take them into account. You judge for yourselves, can a seven-month pregnant woman go out on her own to stage a political action, especially my daughter, who had just come to Armenia from abroad where she was working? What political action? The political aspect is that my daughter, believing in the changes taking place in Armenia, left a country like Denmark and came to Armenia to open a subsidiary," Mnatsakanyan noted.

He demanded 10 million drams in court for the renovation of the memorial and grave as compensation for expenses.

In response to a journalist's question about whether the victim's side is satisfied with the court proceedings, Mnatsakanyan replied, "I am still satisfied, but several times the decisions related to the victim's lawyer have been postponed without valid reasons, and I feel they are doing this to gain time so that five years pass and the statute of limitations elapses." Earlier, Ara Nahapetyan, in response to reporters' questions, refused to comment on Nikol Pashinyan's statement that the motorcade was escorting not Nikol Pashinyan but the Prime Minister of Armenia: "I have no words to speak; please stop. I do not wish to speak."