“We need to see the full picture. This is not an isolated incident. The silence from Brussels and its embassies is deafening. Last year, we faced a similar situation when the parliament was nearly burned down, yet there has been no official statement condemning the attack. This lack of response has emboldened these violent groups, now daring to attack the presidential palace, and we see silence there as well,” said Shalva Papuashvili, the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament.

Papuashvili went on to describe this deafening silence not as double standards, but as a form of direct support for the violent seizure of state buildings.

“This is no longer double standards,” he asserted. “It is outright support for the violent occupation of Georgian government institutions. We first saw this support in a statement from their press secretary, who endorsed the violence planned for October 4. Now, we observe it in their silence. This is the reality the Georgian people must accept. Unfortunately, there is a real attempt to overthrow the government through violence, and it’s not only foreign forces behind this; we can clearly see European structures involved as well,” Papuashvili added.

The Parliament Speaker pointed to recent events, including the attempted storming of the presidential palace, and even shared a detailed comparison he made yesterday.

“We observed it firsthand, including during the attempt to storm the presidential palace, and I published a detailed comparison yesterday. At the very moment when our country was teetering on the brink of chaos, reminiscent of the 1990s, we saw European politicians, including the President of Moldova, openly expressing support for the storming of the presidential palace and condoning the violence. All of this happened simultaneously, making it clear that this violence was being supported from outside,” Papuashvili concluded.