Radicals demand the release of Lasha Sharukhia, otherwise they threaten to start riots

In Georgia, representatives of pro-Russian radicals from the Alt-Info group protested by burning the flags of the European Union, the SOVA project reports.

Earlier, Lasha Sharukhia, a member of the pro-Kremlin movement, posted a video of himself burning the largest EU flag on the administration building in the city of Mtskheta. The court sentenced Sharukhia to 6 years in prison for this act. In response, supporters of the Alt-Info group launched a protest campaign, burning EU flags and posting videos on social media.

The radicals demanded the release of Lasha Sharukhia and threatened to organize riots if this did not happen.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs warned the opposition channel Pirveli TV that all participants in the campaign will be identified and "measures provided for by law" will be applied.

Koka Morgoshia, leader of the Alt-Info group, called the EU flag "an association with immoral behavior" and said that hundreds of people have already joined the protest campaign.

"Everyone is protesting. We are expressing solidarity. We will do everything we can to prevent people from being imprisoned because of this nonsense. People of their own free will planned and carried out this protest – new footage of it is spreading every minute.

It will cover the whole country, and this is to be welcomed, in my opinion. This is nonsense – how can you send a person to prison for burning a flag? While those who need to be arrested are sitting in the country's parliament!" Morgoshiya expressed his opinion.