A man has been formally charged in an ongoing criminal investigation into last May's mass explosions of balloons during an election campaign gathering held by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK), police said on Thursday.
A short statement issued by Armenian police said that Serob Bozoyan, a 54-year-old resident of Yerevan, is facing heavy fines and up to five years in prison under a Criminal Code article dealing with the production and sale of goods not meeting safety standards. Bozoyan was not arrested pending trial.
Hundreds and possibly thousands of gas balloons exploded at the HHK event organized in Yerevan's main Republic Square on May 4, two days before parliamentary elections. At least 154 people, most of them young HHK supporters, were hospitalized with serious burns. Some of them underwent plastic surgery afterwards.
Armenian News
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