at least 48 Georgian journalists suffered as a result of the scuffle, which opponents of the LGBT community were arranged in Tbilisi at the parliament building. This is stated in the message on the MediaChecker.ge media analytical site.
Rustavi 2 TV channel in a special handling distributed on Monday, stated that he would never give the ether Time to opponents of the LGBT community.
The aggressive actions of the participants of the action were condemned by the leaders of a number of television channels, politicians, including the speaker of the Kakhaber Kucaw Parliament, and the Patriarchate of Georgia called on protesters to act only in peaceful ways, transfers TASS.
The victims of journalists on Monday evening visited Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili in one of the Tbilisi clinics, which stated that what happened in Tbilisi is completely unacceptable. “This is not the Georgia, which I know, these are not Georgian traditions, not faith and not the future we want for this country. We did not understand that I will not achieve anything by the opposition,” the Interfax leads the words of the Georgian president.
On Monday, Tbilisi was planned to hold a march in support of the rights of representatives of the LGBT community. Thousands of traditional valuables in the morning began to gather on Rustaveli Avenue, so as not to give the opportunity to spend this action. Later they moved to the building of the parliament, and there the most aggressive opponents of LGBT actually attacked journalists, accusing them in support of sex minority representatives. Later, the protesters broke into the office of the organization “Tbilisi Pride” by the protection of the rights of representatives of the LGBT, staged the pogrom in the building of the organization “A shame”.
In the fact of the attack on journalists, the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under articles “illegal obstruction of journalists in the implementation of their professional activities” and “violence”. Marsh representatives of the LGBT community canceled.