In Tbilisi, protesters fired salutes at law enforcers and thrashed the city all night - 10 law enforcers were injured

In Tbilisi, protesters fired salutes at law enforcers and thrashed the city all night - 10 law enforcers were injured In the capital of Georgia, protesters in the best Maidan traditions thrashed the streets all night and pelted law enforcers with everything they could get their hands on: road signs, benches, stones and garbage cans. Under the hail of junk, law enforcers erected barricades and flooded the angry crowd with water cannons. At the most tense moment of the clashes, tear gas was fired all along Rustaveli Avenue. The police managed to push the crowd back to the metro station of the same name. In response, the protesters began launching fireworks at the officers, using the festive paraphernalia as pistols. During the riots 10 employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were injured, one of them was hospitalized with severe burns. Law enforcers detained a total of 107 people in the riots. They are charged with disobeying police demands, petty hooliganism and an armful of adm... Source: Readovka World
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