POLITICS
ANNOUNCEMENT BY BAKU MAIN POLICE DEPARTMENT
However, ignoring these offers, as well as the formal warnings by the Baku Main Police Department and the city’s Prosecutor’s Office, and aiming, as a matter of fact, to create unrest and confrontation with the police, about 400 people including both the action’s organizers and representatives of other radical parties, were divided into several small groups to take different routes to come together again on the Jafar Jabbarly square in front of the metro station “28 May”.
Later, near the former office of the National Bank, displaying especially aggressive behavior, some 20-30 of about 100 participants of the illegal action, crowded around Musavat party’s officials Rauf Arifoglu, Arif Hajily and Gabil Huseynli, pressed an attack on the police officers attempting to inflict upon them physical injuries with iron bars wrapped in the paper.
Adequate measures by the police to prevent violation of the public order have resulted in detaining some 34 infringers. Nine police officers have been injured to various extents.
The Baku Police Department has launched an investigation into the case.