Surviving suspect of Tbilisi anti-terror operation charged
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Georgia’s Chief Prosecutor’s Office has charged the only surviving suspect of a large-scale anti-terror operation in Tbilisi for terrorist activities.
The suspect only identified as S.D. is facing charges for joining a terrorist organization and supporting it, as well as for the illegal purchase and keeping of firearms, ammunition and explosives for terrorist intentions.
The prosecutor’s office reported the suspect, with his three accomplices, kept illegally purchased ammunition, explosives and arms in a flat of Isani district, Tbilisi.
The office stated the person was detained based on operative information on November 21, and at the time he was carrying a firearm and cartridges.
The other three suspects refused to surrender and they opened fire on Georgian law enforcers, killing one special unit serviceman and injuring five others,” the Prosecutor’s Office stated.
The detainee now faces 10-17 years in prison.
The lawyer of the detainee says the person is a Russian citizen and he has no links with any terrorist group.
Lawyer Imeda Karkashadze claims the suspect was detained quite far from the operation scene.
The case prosecutor Irakli Marshania says that the bodies of the three killed suspects have not been identified and experts are still working to provide details.
"It is still unknown who are those killed. Relevant investigative activities are in progress,” Marshania said.
Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili visited the hospital where the four officers wounded at today’s anti-terrorist operation are receiving medical treatment. Thanking the special operations members for their courage, Kvirikashvili offered condolences to the family of the special-ops serviceman who died in the shooting.
One suspected terrorist has been arrested and three killed during today’s anti-terrorist operation on Gabriel Salosi Street in Tbilisi, the State Security Service announced a short time ago. Nino Giorgobiani, press speaker of the State Security Service, described in a detailed statement how the operation was conducted and how many people were arrested.
The State Security Service of Georgia announced a short time ago that the special operation to arrest suspected terrorists in Tbilisi has officially ended. The officer from the Special Operations Forces, who wounded during the operation, died in hospital.
The Georgian officer who died in an anti-terror operation earlier this week has been buried in a poignant funeral service in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
The United States will help Georgia investigate the case in which an anti-terror operation was held to neutralise suspected terrorists in Tbilisi last week.
Georgia’s Minister of Internal Affairs Giorgi Gakharia says that based on preliminary information, the suspects of a large-scale anti-terrorist operation in Tbilisi allegedly arrived illegally in Georgia.
Georgia’s State Security Service (SSS) has confirmed that one of the three killed suspects in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 is an Islamic State-linked, Russia citizen of Chechen origin, Ahmed Chataev. SSS stated that two suspects were killed by Georgian law enforcers, while "Chataev exploded himself.”
The Government of Georgia has handed a fully furnished apartment to the killed Georgian special unit serviceman Ivane Goloshvili’s family.
The suspected terrorists killed in the Tbilisi counter-terrorist operation on November 22 were planning to attack diplomatic missions in Georgia and Turkey, says the Georgian State Security Service. The Service revealed the results of the ongoing investigation this afternoon.
Georgian Special Operation Forces Officer Ivane Golashvili, who was killed in a counter terrorism operation in Tbilisi last year, was posthumously awarded the Vakhtang Gorgasali First Degree State Medal today.