Police detain two for attempted murder in western Georgia
Both individuals were detained in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo. Photo: Interior Ministry press office/Archive
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Georgian police have detained two individuals for separate cases of attempted murder in the western Georgian region of Samegrelo.
An individual identified as Z.N. and born in 1964 who was detained in Senaki municipality may face seven to 15 years in prison.
The interior ministry has released the footage of the detention:
The interior ministry has reported earlier today that Z.N. assaulted four people from a hunting gun.
Another individual identified as O.B. and born in 1992 was meanwhile detained in Martvili municipality for attempted murder of his mother.
The interior ministry has also released the footage of another detention:
The crime is punishable by 13 to 17 years in prison.
Tbilisi City Court has found Mikheil Kalandia, age 20, guilty of the premeditated murder of David Saralidze in the high-profile murder case of two minors in Tbilisi in a school brawl back in 2017.
Investigative journalism website Bellingcat announced today that ‘the suspected accomplice’ in the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin last August has been identified.
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.
The son of deceased Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Zhvania, Busa Zhvania, been sent to pretrial detention by Tbilisi City Court earlier today for the alleged attempted murder of Levan Topadze.
Tbilisi police have made an arrest after a young man was shot in the downtown and then hospitalised in the capital on Tuesday.
A man shot in central Tbilisi in an incident on Thursday that left one dead and two injured is in critical but stable condition, an update on the development said on Friday.