European and US money is used to justify setting fire to people - Papuashvili on Grigoriadis

Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili said that European and US money is being used to finance the implementation of such ideology in Georgia, according to which if you consider it necessary, you can set a person on fire. This was his reaction to the planned rally in support of 21-year-old Lazare Grigoriadis, who was arrested during March protests. Papuashvili says that one of the frontrunners of this "campaign" is "Shame", which is funded by European and American funds. He says this demonstrates the problem of unscrupulous donors in Georgia. He urged journalists to ask why foreign foundations are funding such campaigns. 

"In general, these groups also recognise that these actions or protests are not related to the issue of securing or giving special attention to a fair trial, but are based on the slogans they have, 'I threw ' and so on. It shows that they justify throwing Molotov cocktails themselves, they justify pouring petrol on people and setting them on fire [...] The problem is that this propaganda of theirs , this campaign is funded from European and American sources, this campaign whose main content is that it is acceptable to pour petrol on a police officer if necessary and set him on fire, means that if someone thinks it is fair, if someone thinks it is necessary, it is acceptable to set a living person on fire, this campaign is funded by EU funds and American funds. In particular "Shame" is one of the frontrunners in this campaign because the funding is hidden, we have no exact information, but they themselves admit that they are funded respectively by the American Foundation for Democracy and the European Union, the European Democracy Foundation, they are funded by American taxpayers and EU taxpayers to implement the ideology that implies that it is OK to set a living person on fire if they think it is necessary. This, of course, once again shows the problem of unscrupulous donation in Georgia, when European and American money is used to justify the burning of people" - said Papuashvili.