Levan Gogichaishvili, a member of the "Gakharia for Georgia" party, recalls the details of the attack on him on October 23.
As Gogichaishvili mentioned in the "PalitraNews" program "Resume", the honorary chairman of "Georgian Dream", Bidzina Ivanishvili, made the activists of "Georgian Dream" even more aggressive with his interview.
"When I entered the metro car, I noticed a group, one person was holding the flag of "Georgian Dream", it was quite a large group, there were not a few of them. For me, I was listening to something when we entered the tunnel and the Internet was cut off, I heard some voices - why don't you greet me, you don't recognize me, etc. I turned around and a completely unknown person was saying something to me in an unclear manner. I pulled him a little closer, I said, I don't know you at all. Everyone got involved, they started artificially straining the situation, some of them even smelled of alcohol, they were "Georgian Dream" activists. One of them verbally abused me in the name of a member of my family and after that a conflict started. They turned out to be more than I thought, but I didn't miss them either. There was a wagon and it seems that they could not use their advantage.
When the train stopped and I got out, they followed me. There were calls from both sides and then what happened happened. When the police came, those people ran away.
Trolls were exposed today, they accuse me of attacking people. We will also see craziness in a little while around this topic. Of course, Bidzina Ivanishvili used such words in his aggressive, contemptuous interview, he spoke "like a sponge". It seems that this encouragement has reached the lower levels and made its "infrastructure", its activists, aggressive, although this is to no avail. I have identified all the people who took part in this conflict yesterday. I am not emphasizing this and I am not detracting from it, most of them are just such people.
In part, it was hard to look at - these are not people who have to live in a really difficult social background, but, unfortunately, their minds and consciousness are adjusted to this propaganda. Something happens out of fear, something out of profit. Do you know what category it is? At the same time, they seem to be street boys, at the same time, if something happens, they will write statements or bring information to the police, at the same time, they are party activists, at the same time, they take part in some program. In a word, they are unhappy, socially disadvantaged people, and it seems that this propaganda, using a little police, a little money, a little force, a little bribery, penetrated the consciousness of these people and turned them into an aggressive mass. I am not angry with these people at all, but the one I am angry with is Ivanishvili because he is the problem, otherwise these people were like that yesterday, they are like that today and they may be like that tomorrow," Gogichaishvili said.