Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili finds it inexplicable “why this or that the European nation housed Mikheil Saakashvili.” Speaking to the media on Tuesday, he went on to say that “it is equally incomprehensible why EU member and non-member countries continue to shelter Davit Kezerashvili and Zurab Adeishvili.”

According to Papuashvili, European countries should help uphold justice since covering up the perpetrators is not a European value.

The Speaker then stated that former President Saakashvili refused to cooperate with physicians.

“It is in the interests of the government and physicians to have him healthy so that he can serve his 6-year jail term, while he is interested in growing worse to evade a prison sentence,” the Speaker stated.

According to Shalva Papuashvili, after the Georgian judiciary condemned Saakashvili in 2018, he freely travelled around Europe, visited European cities, participated in political activities, and steered the opposition’s agenda in Georgia; he then snuck into Georgia to plot unrest. The other two persons, Kezerashvili and Adeishvili, are wanted but not yet extradited for some reason.

”Even Strasbourg said that Mikheil Saakashvili committed crimes. Why was he allowed to walk freely through European cities, why was he shaking hands, and why was he not extradited despite nearly causing civil war in the country? It is inexplicable to me why European countries sheltered Saakashvili. This is not a friendly attitude toward Georgians,” Papuashvili stated.

EU Ambassador to Georgia Pawel Herczynski and Swedish Ambassador Ulrik Tideström on Monday delivered a formal demarche to Justice Minister Rati Bregadze concerning jailed ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili.