5 charged with premeditated murder in case of deceased 19-year-old footballer
17 individuals were detained in the case of the death of Giorgi Shakarashvili, including minors.
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Five of 17 detainees in the high-profile case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili have been charged with premeditated murder.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor's Office reported at a special briefing earlier today that the five detainees attacked and then threw Shakarashvili into Aragvi river on June 19, 2020, which caused his death.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that more than 1,000 investigative activities have been conducted into the case with the involvement of Israeli and US law enforcement agencies.
Shakarashvili went missing while at a friend’s birthday party in Mtskheta, a town outside of Tbilisi, early on June 19.
His body was found in the river Aragvi after a four-day search, on June 22.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that a brawl took place at the birthday party on June 18 when one of the guests, Vakhtang Chikovani, was beaten.
The Georgian Chief Prosecutor's Office has released the video, depicting the development of events.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that most of the guests left the party following the brawl, while Chikovani returned to Tbilisi to collect his friends to take revenge.
Early on June 19 eight cars went from Tbilisi to Mtskheta –three of them from Saburtalo district of Tbilisi and the remaining five from Nadzaladevi district of Tbilisi. Video footage and the information provided by mobile operators confirm the presence of a Toyota car (with Chikovani in it) at the scene and the crime committed by five of six passengers of the car,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Prosecutor’s Office says that Shakarashvili (who was not involved in the brawl at the birthday party) was associated with the rivals of the passengers of the Toyota car and they ran after the boy, attacking him and then throwing him into the river.
12 of 17 detainees in the case have been charged with group violence which is punishable by four to ten years in prison.
If convicted the detainees charged with premeditated murder will be sentenced to 13-17 years in prison.
Eleven of 17 detainees have been denied bail in the case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili by a Mtskheta city court in eastern Georgia earlier today.
Over 450 investigative and procedural activities have been carried out in the case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The Georgian Interior Ministry has confirmed that 17 individuals, including several minors, have been detained in case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili.
17 individuals have been detained in the case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili.
The Georgian Interior Ministry reported that the individual, identified only as T. Ch. and born in 1973, killed an individual identified as T.A. and born in 1967 close to the central railway station and tried to escape.
Georgian police have detained two individuals for premeditated murder in the Ambrolauri municipality today. Meanwhile, five others were detained in the Black Sea municipality of Kobuleti for unlawful imprisonment and kidnapping of an individual from the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
A Mtskheta court has denied bail to 11 individuals detained in the case of the death of 19-year-old football athlete Giorgi Shakarashvili.
All six minors charged with group violence and illegal deprivation of liberty in the high-profile case of the death of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili have been found guilty by a Mtsketa district court earlier today.
Four individuals have been sentenced to five years in prison and one individual to nine years in prison for group violence and kidnapping in the high-profile murder case of 19-year-old footballer Giorgi Shakarashvili last year.