Financial Police Works With the Methods of Gestapo – 100 Witnesses Brought By Force of Guns to Police
October 28, 2010
Maka Malakmadze, Adjara
On October 24th, late at night, Georgian financial police detained 100 Adjara residents in their homes. These are the citizens who systematically crossed Sarpi customs service for last 4 months. Police was looking for the members of criminal group and their allies. Ultimately, on October 25th, out of 100 citizens 15 detainees were transferred to Tbilisi.
100 detained citizens were interrogated as witnesses. Their interrogation continued whole day long. They consider this fact to be a violation of their rights.
Bichiko Jijavadze: “They came in and asked who was Bichiko and if I go to Turkey. I said that I’ve been deported four years ago and never left for Turkey since then. All of my family members were detained. My daughter is a student. I asked them to let her go, but they didn’t.”
Zhuzhuna Mskhaladze: “I was at home when they came. They asked me if I have a Turkish passport and detained me.”
Inga Samsonia: “They were naming certain individuals and asking if I knew them. They had guns. We were put in the cars and brought here. We were very scared and confused…”
Nazi Kakabadze: “They wanted to arrest others and wrongly attacked us with guns. What did we do?!”
Along with the detained citizens, in front of Adjara finance police, there were lawyers whose clients were interrogated in the building. But the lawyers were not let inside.
Nino Gabriadze was a laywer of one of the detainees: ’’I have not been inside yet. Then, hopefully the investigator will receive me.”
Some of the detainees were detained almost simultaneously, on Sunday, between 2:30-3:00 a.m. Basically police arrested those people who transferred cigarette and food products to Turkey.
According to the spread information, the operation of arresting almost hundred citizens was conducted by the officials of Finance Police Tbilisi Department. The department does not comment on the issue.
It should be noted that bringing citizen to the police with “witness status” was widespread practice during ex-president Shevardnadze’s government. In reality, this was violation of procedures envisaged by the legislation. It seems like the law enforcement officials are using the same method here that is the biggest violation of human rights. If there is no basis or order of the arrest, raiding people’s homes at night by gun force and bringing them to police can be compared to the methods of fascist Gestapo or Bolshevik KGB.
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