The goal is for Juknevičienė to be an authority, for her words to be convincing, for her values ​​to be the values ​​of the Georgian people, and not those of Nodar Dumbadze, other classics, or a proud ancestor. This is a deliberate anti-Georgian campaign, - this is how the Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia, Shalva Papuashvili, responded to the events surrounding comedian Onise Okriashvili.

Papuashvili believes that hatred, hate speech, confrontation, and slander are what they are trying to impose on Georgian society from the outside.

“This is the last weapon they are using against Georgian society, because they could not resist us in any other way, which is to try to pit people against each other. What we see - support for hate speech from the outside, incitement - this is what both the state and society must stand against.

The second direction is when they try to smear authorities. The goal is this and we periodically see such campaigns, once there were attacks on King Erekle and his successor, now for some reason Nodar Dubadze has been selected as a target. They are attacking precisely our exemplary people, who are particularly important for the unity of our nation, for defining identity, for forming values, and they choose the target precisely and this is not accidental. Here too, we must see the goal of breaking any cultural backbone that society has, there should no longer be authorities, the authority should be Rasa Juknevičienė. This is their goal, for Juknevičienė to be an authority, for her words to be convincing, for her values ​​to be the values ​​of the Georgian people, and not those of Nodar Dumbadze, other classics, or a proud ancestor. This is a deliberate anti-Georgian campaign, the goal of which is to eliminate authorities, and when society no longer has authority, no role models, when its foundation is broken, then a person of the level of Rasa Juknevičienė will be presented as the main authority and society should follow her. This is a plan and we must oppose this”, said Shalva Papuashvili.

For information, the person accused of violence against comedian Onise Okriashvili was granted a bail of 5,000 GEL. He was released from the courtroom.

Comedian Onise Okriashvili was physically assaulted. Okriashvili later stated that the physical violence was related to the events surrounding writer Nodar Dumbadze. The Ministry of Internal Affairs detained one person in connection with the physical violence.