Are you still torturing people? Don't think that you'll always be like this! 3 - You've been mocking me for an hour and a half, look me in the eye, - politician Aleko Elisashvili told the patrol police officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who is being questioned as a witness at the trial.

According to him, the witness told many lies.

"When the policeman cursed me, I also cursed, do you remember? You were insulting me, that I was politically zero and that I was a wrong person, weren’t you? And you tightly handcuffed me, don’t you? - Elisashvili asked the witness, to which the witness stated that there was no such fact or that he did not remember.

Earlier, the witness stated that Aleko Elisashvili told him that he wanted to burn the court building because he considered it unfair.

“I was told that the facade was damaged by Elisashvili. When I approached, I recognized him. I asked him why he had committed this act - to which he replied that he wanted to burn the court building because the court issued unfair decisions.

The defendant was detained during a physical confrontation. A lighter was also lying with the documents. An empty polyethylene bottle was also lying there.

The table and documents were wet and there was a characteristic smell of gasoline,” the witness stated.

For information, Aleko Elisashvili was charged under Part 1 of Article 19-323 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which refers to an attempt to commit a terrorist act. The aforementioned act is punishable by 10 to 15 years of imprisonment.

According to the investigation, on November 29, at approximately 04:00, masked Aleko Elisashvili, armed with a firearm, ammunition and items necessary for the commission of a terrorist act, approached the Tbilisi City Court building, used a hammer to break the glass of the outer facade of the court chancellery building and entered the court premises.

According to the prosecutor's office, he poured a large amount of flammable substance on the items and documentation placed on the site and tried to start a fire. According to the investigation, the politician attacked and beat one of the bailiffs.

It should be noted that Aleko Elisashvili is accused in another case too- the political persecution of Ali Babaev, one of the founders of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party.

He has been released on bail of 5,000 GEL at the request of the prosecutor's office. In this case, Elisashvili is charged under Article 156, Part 2, Subparagraph "a" of the Criminal Code of Georgia, which means persecution of a person in connection with political activity, committed by violence. The aforementioned act provides for up to three years of imprisonment as a form and measure of punishment.