By Asbarez | Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Shahbaz Guliyev (R) and Dilham Askerov (third from L), Azerbaijani men charged by Karabakh's authorities with sabotage, stand before a court in Stepanakert. (Photo: RFE/RL)
During a Nov. 18 trial, Judge Anatoli Tadevosyan presented findings from the examination of the place of murder of teenager Smbat Tsakanyan, who is believed to have been murdered by the Azeri saboteurs. The judge presented records on forensic examination of the body along with photographs.
When prosecutor Karen Gabrielyan asked who eventually moved the body of the deceased young man from the scene, defendants Guliyev and Askerov blamed each other for the murder and for moving the body from the scene of the incident. In his testimonies, in one case Askerov claimed that the gun that he used when killing Smbat Tsakanyan was different from the guns of the other members of the group in that the trigger was broken, and in another case he claimed that the part of the gun that folds was broken and that he had exchanged that gun with one of the guns of the other members. However, he continued to claim that he didn’t participate in the murder, to which Guliyev objected and demanded that he tell the court the truth.
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