Georgia’s Interior Ministry reported the arrest of 43 people at a protest rally in Tbilisi on the night of November 29.
During the riots, 32 employees of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs were injured, 13 of them required surgery. A police officer remains in the hospital.
In the evening, the opposition calls on its followers to participate in new protests in Tbilisi. The radicals demand that we protest during the day.
EADaily reported that on the afternoon of November 28, mass riots began in Georgia, provoked by the fact that the ruling Georgian Dream suspended negotiations on EU accession until 2028. President Salome Zurabishvili After consulting with foreign ambassadors, she declared herself the only legitimate representative of the authorities in the country, called on the population to disobey the authorities and herself joined the protesters. Tbilisi radicals attacked police officers, blinded them with lasers and broke surveillance cameras. Authorities used tear gas and water cannon against protesters. In the morning, protests in central Tbilisi dispersed.
Zurabishvili said he expected a “tough reaction” from European leaders to the forcible dispersal of the protest rally in Tbilisi.
“I expect a strong reaction from European capitals” – wrote Zurabishvili on his page on the social network X.
