Supporters and leaders of the pro-Kremlin radical group "Alt-Info" and the "Conservative Movement" party tore down the EU flag near the Georgian parliament building. In addition, they burned several flags of the European Union at the actions of the legislative body.
Radicals held a march in the center of Tbilisi "against agents" and persons "trying to involve Georgia in the war." At the moment, the action continues near the parliament building. Clergymen also take part in it.
Pro-Russian forces said they are demanding the release of those arrested in connection with the riots in Tbilisi on July 5, 2021, as well as a referendum on the "foreign agents" bill.
Earlier, the leader of the Anti-Occupation Movement, David Katsarava, reported that Alt-Info members attacked the car in which his wife and minor daughter were traveling. The activist planned to "call to account" the members of the group who committed violence against his family, and announced a meeting near the "Alt-info" office.
The radicals planned to meet Katsarov and his supporters near their office. However, the day before, Katsarova canceled the meeting, announcing that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had intensified the investigation of the attack on his family on the instructions of the head of the department.
Alt-Info leaders gathered today made anti-Western and homophobic statements. "Our home is not the West, our home is Georgia," said one of the leaders of the movement.
The leaders of "Alt-Info" are generally remembered as one of the organizers of violence against journalists in Tbilisi on July 5, 2021, but none of them was ever brought to justice.
At the beginning of 2022, the Georgian parliament approved a law prohibiting the image of the flags of the EU and NATO, their member states, as well as the symbols of international organizations in which Georgia is a member. The document introduced administrative responsibility for the desecration of symbols and provides for fines for violators.