The trial began in Yerevan on Thursday of a man prosecuted in connection with last May's mass explosions of balloons during an election campaign gathering held by the ruling Republican Party of Armenia (HHK).
Serob Bozoyan, a 54-year-old resident of Yerevan, is facing heavy fines and up to five years in prison on charges of manufacturing and selling goods not meeting safety standards.
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. More than 150 people, most of them young HHK supporters, were hospitalized with serious burns caused by the massive firewall. Some of them underwent plastic surgery afterwards.
Armenian News
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