Politicians need to decline services of guards or leave - head of Armenian Republican Party

Any politician should decline the services of security guards or leave politics, the head of the parliamentary faction of the ruling Republican Party of Armenia, Deputy Chairman of the party Galust Sahakyan, said after medical officers were beaten up in a restaurant in Yerevan by security guards of a parliamentary deputy, the president of the Armenian Football Federation Ruben Hayrapetyan, News-Armenia reports.

On June 17 the head of a department of the Yerevan garrison hospital, Vage Avetyan, and his two colleagues were beaten in a restaurant in Yerevan. Avetyan was taken to hospital with brain injury and underwent surgery. He is currently in a critical condition.

According to unconfirmed reports, the doctors were beaten up by security guards of Avetyan, the president of the Armenian Football Federation. An investigation is underway.