A senior Armenian prosecutor has been sacked more than five months after being accused of beating up a man in a street dispute in Yerevan, it was announced on Thursday.
Armenia's Office of the Prosecutor-General said Mesrop Manrikian was relieved of his duties for "a conduct not befitting an official" late on Wednesday, two days after President Serzh Sarkisian harshly criticized state prosecutors.
Manrikian, who has worked at the prosecutor's office of the central Kotayk province, was thrust into a scandal in May. Ruben Grdzelian, a 33-year-old Yerevan resident working as a journalist, claimed to have been assaulted by the prosecutor and three other men, including his son, while strolling in the city center with his wife and small children. Grdzelian said Manrikian insulted and punched him after shouting abuse at the children who played in front of a garage belonging to the prosecutor.
Armenian News
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