I do not have an inexhaustible limit to my patience. You have an obligation to sit where you are and answer my questions, - this is how the chairwoman of the parliamentary temporary investigative commission, Tea Tsulukiani, addressed the chairman of the Gakharia for Georgia party, former Minister of Internal Affairs, Giorgi Gakharia, at the session of the parliamentary temporary investigative commission, when he was speaking about the so-called Chorchana case.
He asked Tea Tsulukiani to let her finish the conversation on the issue and not to interrupt.
"For me, morally, humanly, it is absolutely incomprehensible and unacceptable when a state that believes it is protecting national interests uses the rural population to collect testimonies for the political persecution. You have turned the Minister of Internal Affairs of your own government and the former head of the State Security Service into ordinary eavesdroppers. Georgia did not have effective control over this forest at that time, and the occupying forces exercised effective control over this forest. This is confirmed not by my words, but by the State Security Service's 2019 annual report, the EUMM's 2019 press release. Also, the statement following the 49th round of the Geneva talks, which was made by Georgian representatives.
Georgian citizens should understand that Georgia did not have effective control over this territory, and the occupying forces were doing this. Accordingly, from the beginning of 2019, all relevant bodies, including the EUMM, the State Security Service, and the relevant units of the Special Tasks Department were in this territory from time to time, because there was no permanent patrolling resource and it was impossible. As a result, these signs were found there that this territory was being prepared for occupation, for borderization. This is where these risks came from, when people who entered there were detained, some were released,” said Giorgi Gakharia.
The members of the commission interrupted him several times on the grounds that they had to ask questions to the former Minister of Internal Affairs.
“Write it down and ask me at the end!” Gakharia addressed Tsulukiani, to which Tsulukiani replied that she would decide for herself what to write down and what not to write down.
“Listen to me, I am asking a question, here I do not have an inexhaustible limit of patience. You have an obligation to sit where you are sitting and answer my questions, unlike me. This obligation is written in the Criminal Code. If you did not have an obligation, you would not have sent a request for remote participation,” - Tsulukiani addressed Gakharia.
To Tsulukiani’s remark, Gakharia replied that “he does not have a limit of patience either.”
“I do not have a limit of patience either, I asked you to let me finish. I do not have an obligation [to sit here]. Don’t worry, calm down!” - Gakharia said. Commission member Tengiz Sharmanashvili responded to his statement and noted that it is Gakharia himself who needs to be calmed down.
“Who needs to calm down and who has fled the country, it is clear,” Sharmanashvili addressed Gakharia.
In turn, Gakharia replied that “you really want me to flee, but you wont’ ever see it!”
Tsulukiani also responded to this statement with a short remark.
“You will probably receive guarantees there and then come back,” Tsulukiani noted.