19 December 2012, 13:00
Participants of an action of protest in Georgia pelted Mikhail Saakashvili’s cortège with stones
Participants of an action of protest in Kutaisi with the demand of Mikhail Saakashvili’s resignation pelted the President’s cortège with stones and blocked the building where Head of the state was.
According to different sources, from several tens to several hundred activists blocked the entrance of Mayor’s office of the town where the President of Georgia was having a meeting with deputies of Sakrebulo from “United National Movement” party headed by him.
However, the President of Georgia using another exit went to regional office of the party for a meeting with the deputies. In front of the office the activists once again blocked the exit to the President and his entourage. Saakashvili was able to leave the office with the help of his guard, the “First Channel” of Georgian TV reported.
About 100 people also attacked the President’s cortège but the guard screened Saakashvili off the activists who were throwing stones into his cortège, “Georgia online” reports.
David Darchiashvili, deputy from “United National Movement”, told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent that only “a couple of tens activists of the ruling coalition the “Georgian Dream” gathered in front of the party’s office, not hundreds as was reported by some Georgian mass media.
According to him, the deputies from “UNM” decided to stop work in the Parliament and go back from Kutaisi to Tbilisi because they wished to “sort out the events”.
Author: Inna Kukudzhanova Source: CK correspondent
