“Safarov’s defense was organized incorrectly from the very beginning. Our society had a wrong idea about the legal proceedings in Europe and the Europeans’ attitude to cases of the kind. It’s an ordinary murder for them,” head of the Conflictology Department of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Arif Yunusov stated. In his words, Safarov should have been presented as the victim of the Karabakh conflict. “With availability of confession and some extenuating circumstances Safarov’s sentence could be milder,” he said.
“However some politicians launched a gambling on Ramil Safarov’s tragedy. Some declared him the Man of the Year and set him as example for the Azeri youth. All these statements reached the Hungarian court and played a negative role for the decision. Unfortunately these statements covered President Aliyev and our Foreign Ministry’s statement that said we regret over the incident,” Yunusov said, reported Day.az.
