“If anyone was interested in the October 4 provocation ending this way, first and foremost, it was Georgian Dream; all the rest, everything else the State Security Service presented at the briefing, may mean something or may mean nothing,” MP Giorgi Sharasidze, a member of the Gakharia For Georgia party, has stated.

According to him, Bacho Akhalaia was one of the faces of the United National Movement’s most radical regime.

“If anyone was interested in the October 4 provocation ending this way, first and foremost, it was Georgian Dream. Accordingly, all the rest, the timing of telephone conversations and what the State Security Service presented at the briefing, may mean something or may mean nothing. It’s understandable that, given Bacho Akhalaia’s past, there’s a considerably higher probability that a large part of the population will believe that he really might have committed this crime. At the same time, it’s also not ruled out that Georgian Dream is using this for its own purposes. You know well that, amongst other things, there isn’t complete enthusiasm in Georgian Dream’s ranks and amongst their supporters about how Grigol Liluashvili’s detention took place at the hands of former UNM people, that is, through the State Security Service,” Sharasidze stated.

According to Sharasidze, the opposition also bears some responsibility for the processes taking place in the country.

“Incidentally, a 2011 video of Bidzina Ivanishvili has been circulating, in which he says approximately these words: ‘They’ll catch everyone, whoever they need to catch, whenever they need to catch them’—he’s talking about the United National Movement. If you watch this interview and don’t know when it was recorded, you’d truly think it’s from today. Everything that’s happening in Georgia today is identical to what was happening before 2012. This is the gravest reality. The saddest thing is that the opposition also bears some responsibility in this process.

What we saw on October 4 was an irresponsible provocation, and that’s why we believe that the political process in Georgia cannot continue until everyone and everything is called by its proper name. Until a mistake is called a mistake, and a crime is called a crime.

Bacho Akhalaia was one of the faces of the United National Movement’s most radical regime and one of the executors of the orders that were given during the United National Movement’s time. That’s why I say I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s as the State Security Service says, and I also wouldn’t be surprised if Georgian Dream is using this for its own purposes,” Sharasidze stated.

For information, the State Security Service has detained former Georgian Defence Minister Bacho Akhalaia in connection with the October 4 сase.