According to Hraparak paper, leader of Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan confessed on April 20 in Armenian village of Bagratashen that he did carry a gun during his meeting with voters in Etchmiadzin town.

“Well, I’m telling you I did have it [gun]. I’m carrying a weapon; I fear potential assault,” the party leader said thus naming liars all those who persisted in claims that it was not a pistol but just a Vertu phone, Hraparak says.