Nino Lomjaria: The amount of leaked documents shocked me, there is really total eavesdropping - we live in a terrible country, I could not even imagine the control of this scale

The amount of leaked documents, the details of the information that the state collects about ordinary citizens, shocked me, - the Public Defender of Georgia Nino Lomjaria told Palitranews TV.

According to the ombudsman, these documents prove that there is indeed total eavesdropping.

"I, like many citizens, probably thought that talking on the open line was at least not safe. This is also due to the fact that for many years human rights defenders have been talking about the fact that the existing legal framework does not provide sufficient protection and guarantee that our telephone conversations will not be listened. Consequently, the probability of this was very high. However, the leaked documents, their amount, the detail of the information that the state collects about ordinary citizens, to tell the truth, shocked me. I really did not expect that it would be possible for so much information about a non-public person, his/her personal life, personal communication to be collected in the agency. I do not have any questions, these documents prove that there is total eavesdropping because we are not talking about 10-20-30 people, we are talking about hundreds of people and people related to them", - said Lomjaria.

According to her, the impression remains that the group worked thematically. According to Lomjaria, "the records that have been released are religious and there are other topics as well."

According to the ombudsman, she got acquainted with the materials and was interested in how much of an authentic impression it left. According to Lomjaria, she also found her own name in the records and she really had the communication that is in the records.

According to Nino Lomjaria, the purpose of the listenings is to have information about all the persons, so that they can use it later if necessary.

"Perhaps the goal is to have information about all the people, their weakest points or connections, and if necessary, if they ever find it useful, they will probably use it for political purposes", - Lomjaria said.

To the question, "what can the Public Defender say about what kind of country we live in, what country we got," the ombudsman answers: "In a terrible, terrible country, I honestly think so, because I could not even imagine this kind of control, the scale of which I had no idea."