PHYSICAL VIOLENCE
Date: 2020-10-23
Period: 2020 Parliamentary elections - Pre-election period
District: Gori
Incident Category: Intimidation , Physical attack
2020-10-23
According to the European Georgia, on October 16, in village Akhalubani, several GD representatives physically assaulted their representatives when they were trying to capture on video the fact of covering the European Georgia posters with posters of GD majoritarian candidate Giorgi Khojevanishvili.
According to the head of the GD campaign office, Mikheil Goginashvili, European Georgia representatives tried to tear off GD posters and place theirs instead. Locals protested about it. As a result, one of the European Georgia representatives threatened locals with a firearm.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs launched an investigation under Article 126 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, involving violence.


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