“Throughout this entire period, we have seen numerous satanic rituals at the protests, and fortune-tellers were brought in. When you walk along Rustaveli Avenue, you see 20–25 people standing there. Unfortunately, they are allowing foreign forces to use them,” Georgian Dream MP Levan Machavariani told journalists.

According to him, “emotionally distressed people” are being used by external forces to generate headlines in the international press suggesting that a continuous protest is taking place in Georgia.

“It is difficult not to agree with Mr. Papuashvili. Unfortunately, all of this has developed in an extremely unpleasant way and has really turned into something resembling a sect.

“Throughout this entire period, we have seen numerous satanic rituals, and fortune-tellers were brought in. It is something terrible and shameful. We hope that emotionally distressed people will come out of this situation and realize that external forces are using them to generate headlines in the international press suggesting that a continuous protest is taking place.

“When you walk along Rustaveli Avenue, you see that 20–25 people are standing there. Unfortunately, foreign forces are making them put themselves in this position, and I sincerely hope that they will realize what is happening,” Machavariani said.

For reference, Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili recently published a lengthy statement on social media, writing that “according to the opposition’s count, today is the 666th day of the ‘protest.’”

According to Papuashvili, the group of political protest activists has transformed into a pseudo-religious movement, resulting in an “aggressive sect” with rituals and symbols.

He also stated that, in the dogma of this pseudo-religious sect, the European Union is the “Promised Land,” Article 78 is the creed, resolutions are commandments, and a foreign politician is the supreme priest.

Papuashvili further wrote that when a political movement can no longer justify its existence through a specific result, it often chooses a path where continuation itself is declared a success, while form becomes detached from substance and turns into an end in itself.