Moushegh Kroyan, Assistant Chief of the RoA Police Department’s Public Affairs and Press Division sent the following statement to "Hetq": "The corresponding units of the RoA Police Department’s Organized Crime Division that deals with issues of human trafficking has already sent inquiries out to various locations to verify reports that have appeared in the press. If the press reports turn out to be factual then appropriate measures will naturally be taken." Last week, the "Aravot" newspaper wrote that RoA citizen Astghik Danielyan has been the subject of trafficking in the family of Ambassador Raul de Lutsenberger, who heads the European Commission delegation to Armenia. 37 year-old Astghik Danielyan was employed by the family as a nurse/tutor for their daughter. In May 2008, at the suggestion of the ambassador’s Belarus wife, Natalya Hrousha, Astghik travelled to Brussels on the condition that she would return in August. Later on, Astghik found out that there were irregularities with the tourist visa stamped in her passport and airplane ticket. Astghik had already arrived in Brussels when the ambassador’s wife suggested that she apply for refugee status and that she use the events of March 1 in her claim. Astghik Danielyan says that in Brussels Natalya Hrousha turned from a sweet lady into a demanding and irate employer. "...I basically became a domestic servant at her beck and call. My work day started at 8:30 in the morning and lasted till 11p.m.; sometimes till midnight and later. I was deprived of food (Mrs. Hrousha said that I should feed off the scraps of her daughter’s plate) and medical care, which I frequently was in need of. I had no days off and wasn’t allowed to leave the house. I continued to work there till July 2. Mrs. Hrousha even forced me to iron, wash and clean the house during my off hours," recounts Astghik. On July 2, Astghik refused to work anymore and requested a plane ticket to Armenia for the next day. As a result, Natalya Hrousha and a lady friend staying in the apartment began to ridicule and verbally abuse Astghik. This lead to physical abuse as well and one of Astghik’s teeth was broken. Ms. Danielyan also says that the ambassador’s wife threatened her by saying that a "girl from a backwards and wild country" had no chance against a powerful diplomat like her husband. Astghik says that she fled the house and went to a police station and filed a complaint against the de Lutsenberger/Hrousha family. Elise Vandershrik, a police employee, at the Brussels ZP 5339 Iksel police station registered the complaint. After spending a night on the streets, Astghik made her way to Paris with the help of her husband and presently lives with her sister’s family there. Doctor Jean-Christophe Galie in Paris, in a statement dated July 4, certified that the claims made by Mrs. Danielyan as having received wounds to her right and left arms and that her hands showed bruises and fractures to the chin skin were true and that the woman complained of pain to the arms and back. The doctor noted that his statement was made at the behest of the police. It has been a few days that "Hetq" has tried to contact Ambassador Raul de Lutsenberger for his side to this story. Finally, the ambassador’s personal assistant told us that the ambassador has an extremely busy work schedule and cannot meet with us at the moment but that he promised to comment on the story next week. Astghik Danielyan also reported what had happened to Vigen Chitechyan, Armenia’s Ambassador to France. He telephoned the Armenian Consulate in Brussels and suggested that they assist in Astghik’s return to Armenia. Astghik has turned down the offer. She says that she has every intention of returning but doesn’t want her passport to be stamped with the word "deported" and thus be deprived of entering Europe for the next ten years. Tigran Balayan, Chief of the Public Affairs Department at the RoA Ministry of Foreign Affairs told "Hetq" that they have sent an inquiry to the Armenian Embassy in France to clarify the matter. "In actuality, when did the RoA citizen apply to the embassy? What was the request and what steps did the embassy take? In a word, we are waiting for the necessary information and then we will see what steps are possible." Mr, Balayan failed to mention what those possible steps might be. Astghik Danielyan is demanding that Ambassador de Lutsenberger and his wife be held accountable for their actions and that they compensate her for damages she has suffered. The Brussels police sent the case to the Royal Prosecutor’s Office by the case was mysteriously closed after two months without any explanation. Astghik sought the advice of a Belgian legal advice center and was told that Ambassador de Lutsenberger enjoyed diplomatic immunity and that as an Italian citizen no case could be initiated against him in Belgium. As a last resort in her quest for justice, Astghik Danielyan intends to petition the European Court of Human Rights.