Azerbaijan continues to "debriefing" about past protests in the country's second largest city - Ganja. The action began with the requirements of the protesters Yunis Safarov release, whom police arrested on suspicion of organizing the assassination of the mayor of Ganja. Then the head of the city injured.
Azerbaijani police has distributed information about Safarov, stated, that he is a citizen of the Russian Federation, and in his time he was trained in Syria on the bases of terrorist groups. Safarov's actions in Ganja Azerbaijan law enforcement officers qualify as a terrorist act, calling them an attempt to seize power.
As a result, the protest escalated into the present carnage, which killed two high-ranking officer of the republic police, including the deputy chief of police of Ganja State University and the deputy chief of police department of Nizami district. Total, account goes on dozens injured, both on the part of law enforcement officers, and on the part of protesters. Killed and one protestor Rashad Boyukkishiev.
after detention 40 protesters Azerbaijani police said, We installed data organizers of the riots in the second largest city of the republic. is approved, that protesters linked to the "religious-extremist organizations, collaborating with the special services of Armenia ".
From the statement of the Azerbaijani Prosecutor's Office:
In preparing protests suspected arrived 9 July of Russia in Ganja Byakram Aliyev. We can say, that the riots in the city were coordinated from abroad. So, another organizer – Bojukkişiev – a few days before the riots brought his family to Georgia.
Russia is not directly accused, but at the same time constantly emphasized, that some protesters have been in Russia or are citizens of the Russian Federation. If consider, that a large part of the citizens of Azerbaijan regularly attends Russian, the intelligence agencies of the republic remains and every one of them “suspected of destabilization”.
Against this background, the Azeri press stated that, President Ilham Aliyev and Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan may hold talks in Moscow. One of the main topics of discussion - the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh.
A few days ago, Azerbaijan and the EU signed an agreement on partnership priorities.
