Struggle with crime should not take place at the expense of human rights – Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze thus answered Roman Gotsiridze, MP of National Movement during the plenary session.

Representatives of National Movement alleged that criminal situation turned to the worse in Georgia. PM underlined that people and human rights were the main values of the government. He said that crime statistics was not increased and that the current situation reflected the picture as portrayed through the management of statistics precisely. PM accused the previous authorities of ‘hiding corpses.’

“It is not true that people who left prisons caused the increase of crime cases. This is populism.  . . . Struggle with crime is a complex process and it represents a challenge for all countries. There is no magic formula even for more developed countries.  . . . We will be intolerant in the fight with crime and will keep on carrying out of reforms at the same time by meeting high standards of human rights,” Bakhtadze said.

Prime Minister Mamuka Bakhtadze is answering questions of lawmakers. PM arrived in the Parliament to talk about the criminal situation in the country in the format of a new interpellation rule that has been activated in the supreme legislative body starting today.