Sputnik and Europa Press

La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, November 30, 2024, p. 18

Tbilisi. Georgian authorities reported that 43 people were detained and 32 members of the security forces were injured during protests in the country against Prime Minister Irakli Kobajidze’s declaration to abandon aspirations for accession to the European Union until 2028. Georgian police used water cannon against protesters in Tbilisi, who had damaged the entrance gate of Parliament.

Protesters vandalized and set fire to infrastructure. It should be noted that a part of the demonstration participants headed towards Chichinadze Street, where the aforementioned people damaged the entrance door of Parliament.says the statement from the Ministry of the Interior.

The President of Georgia, Salomé Zurabishvili, called on the security forces to refrain from violently dissolving and repressing the protesters, who gathered yesterday for the second consecutive day in several cities, including the capital to protest against the government of Kobajidze.

I know the patrol police, they are doing everything they can and we should thank them for this. I want to appeal to the rest (of agents): Do not raise your hand against young citizens or others, refrain and do your duty. Nothing is happening (…) that requires your participationZurabishvili said.

The Georgian head of state, opposed to the government of Kobajidze’s Georgian Dream party, assured that It is unprecedented for Georgian citizens to come out at the same time and spontaneously in this way. Thus, Zurabishvili insisted on the character extremely peaceful of the marches.

On the other hand, the Georgian president shared on her official profile on social networks a video in which the number of attendees at the rally is observed, and asserted that this is a sign that no one is willing to accept a Russified Georgia neither deprived of its Constitution.