It is very good that the footage was released because it gave the government the opportunity to react immediately, - Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze told journalists in response to a question about the violence against two citizens by law enforcement officers in Gori.
As Kobakhidze noted, today's response, which involves the detention of law enforcement officers, was necessary precisely to prevent this type of violence from becoming systemic.
“This was a very serious case and, of course, an immediate legal response was needed. The public saw that the government had an adequate, appropriate, healthy reaction to this serious fact.
Of course, no violation of the law, especially such a violation of the law, should go unpunished. It is very important that law enforcement agencies work with the most sophisticated handwriting. This is what our government has brought after 2012 and this is the handwriting that we should be careful of as much as possible.
Today's measure, which has already been taken, will certainly contribute to preserving our handwriting as much as possible. A sophisticated handwriting is when the government has a healthy reaction to a violation of the law.
I would like to remind you of what the handwriting of the previous government was like. The handwriting was, for example, what happened in the case of Sandro Girgvliani. Then, not only were the perpetrators not punished, but on the contrary, they created greenhouse conditions for them. I will bring you a number of facts when such crimes were committed and the previous government not only did not react to this, but also sometimes sheltered the criminals, sometimes created greenhouse conditions for them, and the Girgvliani case is just one example.
Our handwriting is different. Our handwriting is that it does not matter who commits the crime, whether it is an ordinary citizen or a representative of a law enforcement agency, in any case, a violation of the law should not go unpunished.
It is precisely in order to prevent such violence from becoming systemic, that today's response was necessary, which the society has seen. It is precisely because of this that such an immediate response is necessary, so that violence does not become systemic on the part of representatives of law enforcement agencies,” Kobakhidze said.