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Opposition Parties Were Informed About the Rally of Taxi-Drivers in Advance

July 1, 2009

Today, taxi-drivers organized demonstration in Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi. They demanded to remove cells from the avenue.

Representatives of the opposition parties arrived in Rustaveli Avenue when the rally started. They said the authority had planned the provocation. “These people work at the Constitutional Security Department and Special Operative Department within the MIA who are provokers. Taxi-plates were distributed among them and now they pretend to be taxi-drivers,” said Levan Gachechiladze, a leader of the non-parliamentary opposition.

Besides that, opposition party members predicted that “unsatisfied taxi-drivers” will appear soon in Rustaveli Avenue. Pikria Chikhradze from the Alliance for Georgia stated one hour before the demonstration started that the government intended some provocation in Rustaveli Avenue.

According to her, Temur Giorgadze, head of City Department for Emergency Situations, invited the personnel to the meeting and planned the provocation. “Taxi-plates and petrol coupons were distributed among them. They had to approach the people living in the cells in Rustaveli Avenue, and to start some conflict with them; they had to demand the removal of cells. It is well-appropriated method of the governmental structures,” said Pikria Chikhradze.

Temur Giorgadze commented on the accusation and said the statement of Pikria Chikhradze was false and demonstration was not planned.

After Chikhradze made the statement taxi-drivers really started a rally in Rustaveli Avenue. They demanded removal of the cells from the avenue.

Prepared based on the information of the Interpressnews

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