Citizen Samvel Vardanyan detained on suspicion of hooliganism after  altercation with MP from  ruling faction

ArmInfo. Citizen Samvel Vardanyan was detained on suspicion of hooliganism after an altercation with MP from the ruling Civil Contract faction, Hakob Aslanyan. This became known from the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Armenia.  It should be noted that the video footage of the incident on one of the city buses was spread on the Internet this afternoon. 

In the video, it can be seen that a citizen sitting on the bus, 

recognizing Aslanyan, known for his odious statements, threw 

"Anti-Armenian scoundrel" in his face.

These words aroused the anger of the MP, who rudely demanded to give 

him the way, and then attacked the young man with his fists and 

knocked the phone out of his hands.

Later it became known that in connection with this incident, Samvel 

Vardanyan was detained.  As human rights activist Ruben Melikyan 

wrote, Samvel Vardanyan is in the Investigative Committee.  "Samvel 

Vardanyan is in the Investigative Committee, I am going there to 

represent his interests," he wrote.

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan, reacting to what 

happened, in particular, wrote:  "Today, one nonentity allowed 

himself to commit a hooligan act against the 69-year-old MP  of the 

National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia Hakob Aslanyan, who, by 

the way, is a participant in three wars. This hooligan act will very 

quickly receive the strictest reaction from the law, let no one doubt 

it."