Irakli Kobakhidze: You can’t create a scandal out of nothing! All you have left is that someone’s parrot lost its feathers - don’t worry, the parrot will be fine!
“When BBC relies on the father-and-son Chakhunashvili team, it already indicates a tragic situation. When people lacked credibility, and the only thing you had left was that someone’s parrot lost its feathers, don’t try to make a scandal out of the parrot,” Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists, commenting on the BBC investigative report.
Kobakhidze added that the investigation might even examine that parrot whose feathers fell out.
“I wasn’t aware, and it also turned out, that the scientific article by the father-and-son Chakhunashvili team begins with political paragraphs and statements. When BBC relies-generally-on the Chakhunashvilis, this already reflects the tragic situation created by this particular TV channel. Let me repeat once again: you cannot create a scandal out of nothing. When people had no credibility, and all that remained was that someone’s parrot lost its feathers, don’t try to make a scandal out of the parrot. The investigation will examine who was involved in hostile activities against Georgia’s national interests. [It will also investigate] what substance was used, but the main point is to determine who was involved in hostile activities against Georgia’s national interests. The investigation might even examine that parrot whose feathers fell out, but this will not allow you to create a scandal,” Kobakhidze stated.
When asked what substance was used, the Prime Minister replied: “Don’t worry, the parrot will be fine.”
For context, the BBC reported that collected evidence indicates that last year, the Georgian government allegedly used chemical weapons dating back to World War I to disperse anti-government protests.
According to the BBC, demonstrators opposing the government’s actions to halt Georgia’s EU integration reported symptoms including eye burning, sneezing, coughing, and vomiting, lasting for weeks.
The BBC also consulted chemical weapons experts, Georgian special forces representatives, and doctors, and concluded that evidence points to the use of an agent called “Camite” by the French military.
