"Fighter of The National-liberation Struggle"
The pro-governmental newspaper "Azg" called Varoujan Garabedian a "fighter of the national-liberation struggle", "patriot", "brother", "hero of the Armenian liberation war", while his actions, which resulted in 8 killed and 55 wounded totally innocent people, were called the "manifestation of а chivalrous spirit". The newspaper called Garabedian's pardoning the "fair (yet belated) decision of the French court, which was welcomed by the world". Prominent members of Armenian "intelligentsia", Zori Balayan, Sylva Kaputikian, Sos Sarkisyan, Gevorg Emin, Perch Zeytunyants, Levon Ananyan and others expressed their admiration and support of convicted terrorist.
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