Protesters in Georgia came to the Palace of Orbeliani and arranged clashes with the police
In Georgia on Saturday afternoon, October 4, against the background of elections to local government, protests began. The demonstrators first took to the streets of Tbilisi, blocking Rustaveli Avenue.
By evening, protests acquired a larger and more destructive character. It is already known about the victims, including among law enforcement officers, as well as the detention of several people. The property of street cafes on Orbeliani Square is destroyed.
The protesters came to the President’s Palace
Protesters called on citizens to seize state institutions, announcing that they would first occupy the residence of the president. They act with criticism of the authorities, and are also dissatisfied with the results of the elections.
Fierce protests in the country broke out after the declaration of the victory of the ruling party “Georgian Dream”
At some point, an angry crowd broke through the iron fence and burst into the courtyard of the Palace of Orbeliani. Protesters began to throw stones into the building, as a result of which the special forces had to use waterlets, tear grenades and pepper spray.
Photo: Irakli Gedenidze / Reuters
There was a fire in the city center, there are victims
The main claim of the protesters is to terminate the course on European integration. They accuse the country’s authorities of close connection with Russia.
By this hour, it is known that as a result of screaming, the crew of the Imady television channel, as well as several police officers, suffered. In social networks, they publish fire frames. It is specified that on the Square of Freedom set on fire Fences that were built from furniture to protect against special forces. The main police forces are concentrated there.
Among the protesters, people with the flags of the European Union and the USA are seen
Participants in the protest plan to nominate to the office of the Georgian Dream party. Now there are its representatives there. How reported Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze, candidates from the ruling party gained more than 70 percent of the vote in all municipalities.
In Russia, they gave an explanation to what is happening
As the associate professor of the department of political science of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Konkov, is due to the tangible pressure of the West on Georgia in connection with the discontent by the fact that the current authorities of the country have so actively set up for the defending their sovereign interests, for the retention of the Western anti -Russian policy from entering into the anti -Russian policy.
There is a pressure of Western structures that use their strength in order to rock the situation from the inside. The authorities also accumulated experience in this regard. At the same time, Georgia is a country with a fairly active political variety. All rallies, all protests have their own tradition, beginning and completion