In Tbilisi, three persons detained at Victory Day celebration

In Tbilisi, the police detained a leader of the movement "Socialist Georgia" and his son, who fought with an activist of the movement "Force in Unity" because the latter expressed his dissatisfaction with the Soviet symbols brought by them.

Today, members of the movement "Socialist Georgia" brought portraits of Stalin, flags of the USSR and St. George ribbons to the Victory Day celebration in Vake Park in Tbilisi. Another group of activists, displeased with the use of Soviet symbols, organized a "corridor of shame" for the socialists. There was a fight.

All three of the detainees, including Valery Kvaratskheliya, the leader of the movement "Socialist Georgia", have already been released under recognizance not to leave and obligation to appear in court for a trial in an administrative case of petty hooliganism. Under the above article, each of them faces a fine of 100 laris (about 40 US dollars) or arrest for 15 days, the "News-Georgia" reports with reference to the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Apart from the leader of the movement "Socialist Georgia", his son and Nika Shakulashvili, a member of the civil movement "Strength in Unity", who had come into conflict with socialists, were detained. According to the activist, in reply to criticism, Valery Kvaratskheliya used bad words against one of the opponents of Soviet symbols and after that Nika Shakulashvili threw an egg to the socialist.

The policemen who were in the Vake Park also requested members of the movement "Socialist Georgia" to remove Soviet symbols, prohibited by the Georgian laws, the "InterPressNews" reports.

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