Georgia's State Security Service warned about a “planned criminal plot” aimed at disrupting the upcoming presidential elections scheduled for December 14.
The agency said the “criminal organisers” were planning to “escalate tensions in Tbilisi, “hoping to provoke violent confrontations”, and highlighted the “goal of this escalation is to create victims in the process”.
It claimed the group intended to “use the unrest as a means of violently overthrowing the Government”.
The agency further clarified potential conspirators were considering escalating the situation to the point where “deaths of two to three people” would “serve as a catalyst for further unrest”.
"With these sacrifices, they will try to increase the protest charge, encouraging radical sentiments, which, according to their intention, should develop into uncontrolled processes and be blamed on the Government in a disguised way”, the statement reads.
