“I distance myself from any form of violence, attack, or attempt at provocation against state institutions. The actions we have been witnessing all day clearly show how much our peaceful protest troubles the regime — such provocations are aimed at stopping this protest,” Georgia’s fifth President Salome Zurabishvili writes on Facebook.

According to her, she supports peaceful protest as “an expression of the maturity and responsibility of society.”

“I distance myself from any form of violence, attack, or attempt at provocation against state institutions. The actions we have been watching all day today clearly show how much our peaceful protest troubles the regime.

These types of provocations are aimed at stopping this protest and discrediting the force that today truly reflects the free will of the citizens — which was once again clearly visible yesterday.

I support peaceful protest as an expression of the maturity and responsibility of our society.

I call on everyone not to give in to provocations and to continue the peaceful protest, because only through peaceful means can we fully achieve our goal,” Zurabishvili writes.