We call on the President of Georgia and other persons to be more responsible in these tense days with every word, which can have disastrous results for everyone, - it is stated in the statement of the Public Relations Service of the Patriarchate.
According to the Patriarchate, the "sad and disturbing statement of the President of Georgia, Salome Zurabishvili, that "after the universities, it is the turn of the schools to express solidarity with the actions" is spreading on social network X.
"During these days, we see how the events are developing at the protest actions; Often, the situation becomes so tense that the gathering turns into random throwing of various objects and hand-to-hand confrontation.
In such conditions, any statement called to incite the involvement of schoolchildren and, in general, minors, especially by the president of the country, who, as a rule, should try to neutralize the polarization and hatred in the people, so that the mental and physical health of the future generation will not be harmed by the current events. It is extremely disturbing.
In addition to this, the footage of strangers trying to go against the school administration and entering schools, disrupting the learning process and making appeals to students, which causes righteous indignation, is completely unacceptable and should be stopped immediately.
There is also false information spreading on the Internet, as if studies at the school named after St. Ilia the Righteous of the Patriarchate have been stopped, which the directorate of the educational institution itself denies in a statement published on the social network Facebook: "The educational process in the school is going on as usual."
"I consider the involvement of minors in the ongoing processes by political actors or parents of minors to be a crime. We condemn the violence that has been happening in the last few days. Please students, employees and parents, do not bring the political conflict to the school," says Mamuka Tediashvili, director of the Tbilisi school named after Saint Ilia the Righteous of the Patriarchate.
The discrediting and polarizing of law enforcement officers is also an unsubstantiated statement that law enforcement officers are under the influence of a narcotic substance. Clergy representatives of the Public Relations Service of the Patriarchate are on duty every night in the Kashveti Cathedral and the surrounding area and have never noticed such facts.
In the end, we once again call on the President of Georgia and other persons to be more responsible in these tense days with each word, which may have disastrous results for everyone," the statement said.
