Suspected Thieves Of Armenian Monument Arrested In France
Two men suspected of stealing a bronze monument in France commemorating the 1915-1917 mass killings of Armenians have been arrested in a Paris suburb, police said. The two apparently stole the 300-kilogram (660-pound) sculpture, which showed the Armenian alphabet, and melted it down to sell it off as scrap metal, investigators said. Officers said they did not believe there was a political motive for the theft, which occurred two days after the French parliament adopted a bill that, if it eventually becomes legislation, will make it a crime to deny the Armenian slaughter was anything less than genocide by Ottoman Turks. The October 13 theft of the monument just west of Paris attracted international attention because of the political context, and because of Turkey's furious reaction to the proposed French bill. The two suspects, aged 26 and 29, were arrested in the southwest Paris suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux after the theft of copper pipes in the area.
- AFP
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- 1837 Birth of Stepanos Palasanyan (armenologist) in Bodushan, Moldavia. He died in 1889 in Etshmiadsin.
- 1837 Death of Hakob Shahen-Jrpetyan (armenologist) in Tbilissi. He was born in 1772 in Urfa.
- 1920 The first Armenian issue of the "Communist" daily published in Yerevan. It was the official paper of the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist Party. After 1921, it was called "Soviet Armenia".
- 1920 The first order of the Revolutionary Committee of the Armenian SSR creates the People's Commissariat of Military Affairs of the Armenian SSR.
- 1936 The 7th Extraordinary Congress of the Soviet of the USSR confirms the new constitution. The Armenian SSR becomes a Union Republic.
- 1936 The Kanaker Power Plant is put on line.
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