A Yerevan court today found a police officer guilty in connection with an April 2022 road accident that killed a pregnant woman while she was crossing a street in downtown Yerevan.

The officer, Aram Navasardyan, was driving a police SUV escorting PM Nikol Pashinyan’s motorcade through Yerevan. The SUV struck 28-year-old Sona Mnatsakanyan and didn’t stop.

A video showing Pashinyan’s limousine and six other cars in the motorcade driving past the hit woman spawned a flurry of outrage on social media outlets in Armenia at the time.

The court found Navasardyan guilty of violating traffic rules and will sentence him later.

Navasardyan’s defense team unsuccessfully claimed the dead woman failed to give way to Pashinyan’s motorcade based on her “political viewpoints” and intentionally stepped into the path of the passing cars.

 Photo: Aram Navasardyan, Sona Mnatsakanyan