Son of ruling party MP, 5 others charged with violence
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The son of the ruling Georgian Dream party MP Koba Kobaladze has been charged with violence for attacking a man on June 24 in Tbilisi, with five other individuals.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office says that David Kobaladze and five others attacked a young man for revenge, while two of the six attackers ‘wounded the man with the use of sharp objects.’
The Prosecutor’s Office says that all the six alleged offenders were detained on July 11.
The Prosecutor’s Office has already appealed to the court to send the individuals to pretrial detention.
A 35-year-old man wounded a patrol police officer called by the man’s wife due to a domestic conflict in the Temka settlement of Tbilisi earlier today.
16,820 individuals were charged in Georgia in 2018, which is a 6.5 per cent increase compared to 2017, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office says in its annual report presented in parliament.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia says that people phone police for family violence cases more frequently than in previous years. The Deputy Interior Minister of Georgia Natia Mezvrishvili said that several police officers have been dismissed for committing domestic violence.
Georgia’s Interior Minister Giorgi Mgebrishvili is calling on all victims of domestic violence to speak out and seek help.
Police have arrested one individual with an allegation of manslaughter that precipitated "group violence" in the city of Akhalkalaki in Georgia's south, with buildings burned down in the locality as a result of violence.