After yesterday, more people will reflect on what they were dragged into, how they were radicalized, and how a few thousand people were convinced that terrorism is a fight for freedom, stated the Speaker of the Parliament, Shalva Papuashvili, regarding the events that unfolded during the October 4 rally.
According to him, “society realized yesterday what it was dealing with—an attempt to overthrow the government and a state coup, which amounts to plunging our country into chaos and lawlessness, a return to the 1990s.”
“Yesterday, a few thousand people gathered, and I think society realized yesterday what it was dealing with—an attempt to overthrow the government and a state coup, which amounts to plunging our country into chaos and lawlessness, a return to the 1990s. Look at Ukraine to see what ‘Maidan’ and ‘Maidanization’ mean.
After yesterday, more people will reflect on what they were dragged into, how they were radicalized, and how a few thousand people were convinced that terrorism is a fight for freedom.
Each of them knew exactly where they were going at 4:00 p.m. on the 4th, and they knew very well what the goal of this rally was. They know very well what overthrowing the government means and what it means from their own history. Among them are people old enough to have lived through the 1990s; some spent their childhood and youth in that period, and now, as adults, they are throwing Georgia back into the 1990s with their own hands.
These few thousand people are the same ones who, in March 2022, demanded our involvement in the Ukraine war; the same ones who, in July 2022, demanded the government be handed over to NGOs; the same ones who threw a Molotov cocktail in 2023 and justified it; the same ones who were defeated in 2024 as voters and, instead of accepting that defeat, declared war on their own country. They went so far as to become political supporters of a state coup. Yesterday was a continuation of previous days, starting from last year’s elections, and today is a continuation of yesterday—this is a political organism.
I address the citizens: do not deceive yourselves; terrorism is not a fight for freedom, and let no one think that their violence and actions against the country will be justified. The Ministry of Internal Affairs is vigilant,” Papuashvili stated.
Shalva Papuashvili: After yesterday, more people will reflect on what they were dragged into, how they were radicalized, and how a few thousand people were convinced that terrorism is a fight for freedom
