Police completed the dispersion of the protest on Tbilisi’s Rustaveli Avenue on the morning of November 30.
Law enforcement officers pushed the protesters back to the Rustaveli metro station and cordoned them off. There were massive arrests there.
It was the second night of protests since the government announced a freeze on EU accession negotiations.
The media reported “many victims” among the protesters.
Public services operate in Rustaveli. They are dismantling the remains of the barricades that protesters had built with benches, garbage cans, rental scooters and other items. From there they periodically launched New Year’s fireworks at the police. In response, tear gas canisters were fired from the cordon.
Georgia’s Interior Ministry confirmed the detention of 107 people during the crackdown. “As a result of the violent actions of the protesters, 10 police officers were injured.” One of the members of the security forces remains in the hospital with burns of varying degrees.
In just two days, about 150 protest participants were detained in Tbilisi and another 10 people were detained in Batumi.
Meanwhile, following the resignation of a part of the employees of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs due to their disagreement with the Government’s decision to suspend negotiations on accession to the EU until 2028, journalists from The Rustavi 2 television company also resigned.
“The fortress is collapsing from within. “Now it is the turn of the public broadcaster.” — the president of Georgia wrote about this Salome Zurabishvili on social networks.
