"After the recent personnel changes, I expressed the opinion that Pashinyan will increase the political dependence of the police on the government.
Unfortunately, this concern was confirmed," said political scientist Suren Surenyants, referring to what happened today near the meat market on Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan.
"This morning, the police officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Food Safety Inspection Authority conducted another joint inspection of meat shops on Khorenatsi Street in Yerevan to check the presence of a document on slaughterhouse skin, after which the butchers were severely tortured by the police officers, especially the "red berets". without any reason, tear gas was used, meat confiscated from people was burned.
Of course, the state is obliged to take care of food safety, but the measures must be carried out in accordance with the letter of the law, excluding the fetishization of violence, humiliation of people, violation of social rights.
Most of the butchers carry out their business through credit resources. The state has not created any infrastructural conditions for the civilized implementation of this business, and now it confiscates the meat belonging to them, preventing the fulfillment of these people's bank obligations, subjecting hundreds of families to social discrimination and poverty.
The authorities are completely out of touch with the demographic crisis created in the country, and now they are forcing hundreds of families to emigrate.
After the recent personnel changes, I expressed the opinion that Pashinyan will increase the political dependence of the police on the government.
Unfortunately, this concern was confirmed. The newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs Arpi Sargsyan, who enjoys the support of the so-called Western circles and has a reputation as a reformer, did not start his tenure with a positive message at all, which will deepen public distrust of state institutions and the police. is not intended to intimidate the citizens of one's own country, but to create platforms for dialogue with different groups of society.
Only in this way is it possible to create an environment of public solidarity, to find balanced solutions to existing problems," he wrote.
