Police warn individual caught damaging European Georgia party election poster in Kutaisi
The Interior Ministry announced that it received information on October 13 that a poster of the opposition European Georgia party located on Queen Tamar Avenue in Kutaisi was damaged. Photo:
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The Georgian Interior Ministry has announced that an individual who has damaged an election poster of the opposition European Georgia party back on October 13, has been given a warning for petty hooliganism.
Statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs regarding the fact of damaging the poster on the window of the political party “European Georgia”:https://t.co/PrIivQQysu
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The ministry announced yesterday that the individual, identified only as M.G. and born in 1981, threw a brick to the EG poster on the office window in the western Georgian town of Kutaisi and damaged the property.
The property damage has been assessed in the amounted of 80 GEL. However, based on the investigation, the action committed by the above individual did not contain signs of criminal offence.
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