French expert calls for international condemnation of Ganja bombings

The Ganja bombings should be condemned, French historian and political expert Maxime Gauin told Report.

"It is a matter of justice. Azerbaijan should apply to the International Court of Justice," he said.

Gauin noted that the Ganja bombings were actually mentioned and discussed in several media.

"But there was no outcry comparable to the totally justified condemnation of the Russian attacks against Ukrainian cities. One of the reasons is the systematic practice of physical threats by Armenian nationalists in the diaspora," he said, citing as an example the French journalists that were publicly threatened with death in 2020 for having written on the neo-Nazi volunteers fighting with the Armenian forces.

"Another is the electoral forces attributed to the diaspora in several countries," Gauin said.

During the Second Karabakh War, the Armenian Armed Forces shelled the city of Ganja with rockets and heavy artillery a total of five times - on October 4, 5, 8, 11, 17 of 2020. As a result of these attacks, 26 people were killed, 175 were injured, and serious damage was caused to civilian infrastructure and vehicles.

A total of 93 civilians were killed, including 12 children and 27 women, 454 civilians were injured, a total of 12,292 residential and non-residential buildings, 288 vehicles, 1,018 farms were damaged as a result of the military aggression of Armenia during the Second Karabakh War.