Police are engaged not in investigating crime but in creating crime artificially- Non-government organizations

"I think this is not just about one particular police officer, we are dealing with a deeper problem." - This is how the chairman of the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association assesses the journalistic investigation aired by "Saturday Mtavari". 

NGOs say we are dealing with a systemic breach and one high-ranking official cannot be blamed, they say, all are equal before the law, including the  high-ranking clergy.

"These facts have shown us that we have a problem in the country in several respects. I think this is not just about one particular police officer, we are dealing with a deeper problem. Before the law, of course, everyone must be equal, the law must be applied equally to all," says Nika Simonishvili, Chairman of GYLA. 

Giorgi Mshvenieradze, an adviser to the “Georgian Democratic Initiative”, says this is a kind of tragedy in the country because the law enforcement agencies artificially create crime. 

"The very fact that the police know in advance what a person should be arrested for, that is, what kind of the crime it will be, that the person will commit in the future and it is agreed with the person to be detained, is a kind of tragedy in the country. says Mshvenieradze

According to him, there is some illegal warehouse or base in the country, from where the police can take various illegal items, plant them on individuals and then hold them accountable.

For reference, yesterday, April 10, in the Saturday program aired on the "Mtavari Channel", a journalistic investigation was carried out, which reflected the facts on how the law enforcement agencies act in agreement with the clergy of the high hierarchy. Shalva Zambakhidze, a high-ranking police official, was arrested after a journalist investigation was launched.