When you publicly declare a national hero “senselessly doomed”, isn’t this a crime before the law and the constitution and tantamount to treason? - the fifth president, Salome Zurabishvili, said in response to the statement of the member of Georgian Dream, Tea Tsulukiani, regarding the hero of the August War, Giorgi Antsukhelidze.

“When you publicly declare a national hero “senselessly doomed”, isn’t this a crime before the law and the constitution? And tantamount to treason? Not to mention morality, conscience, patriotism, or the elementary human respect that we all owe to Antsukhelidze's children," writes Salome Zurabishvili.

Tea Tsulukiani stated on the Georgian Public Broadcaster: "To put it simply, why is Giorgi Antsukhelidze not at home today? I have the right to ask this question along with my comrades. Who should forbid me from asking this question? No one. We are asking this question. Every child needs their parents to be at home and not pointlessly doomed for someone's PR, in this case I mean Saakashvili."