In Georgia, after forcefully adopting the law on “foreign agents”, violence resumed against opponents of power and opponents of this law. During the night from Friday to Saturday, the headquarters of the main opposition party was ransacked by around thirty individuals.
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With our correspondent in Tbilisi, Régis Genté
Violence and threats against opponents have resumed in Georgia. According to the victims, these physical and verbal attacks are orchestrated by those in power.
On the night of Friday Saturday, the headquarters of the main opposition party, the United National Movement, located a few hundred meters from the Minister of the Interior, was vandalized by around thirty individuals without this being provoked. the slightest police reaction. The president of this party was very violently beaten a month ago.
NGO leaders also saw the walls and entrances to their offices tagged, with insults and threats. And this while a campaign of telephone calls against them seems to have been relaunched.
A deputy, Dito Samkharadze, member of the Political Council of the ruling Georgian Dream party, admitted that he himself is behind the violent acts committed by gangs of thugs.
The atmosphere is also hardening with regard to the implementation of the law on “foreign agents”, another deputy close to power thus promised that “ those who still protest against the adoption of the law must be tried for espionage “.
The text on “foreign agents” that opponents call the “Russian law”, because it is inspired by the Russian law of 2012 aims to cut ties with the West, and in fact should bring back Georgia in the Russian orbit. However, more than 80% of the 3.7 million Georgians say they want to become a member of the European Union.
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