On April 12, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced Lazare Grigoriadis to nine years in prison.
Grigoriadis, 23, was arrested in connection with the March 7-9 protests against the so-called Foreign Agents Law for allegedly throwing Molotov cocktails at police and setting fire to a police car. Today, Judge Zviad Sharadze found him guilty of both charges of harming the health of a police officer under Part 2 of Article 353 Prima of the Criminal Code and destroying state property under Part 2 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code.
The defendant will ask President Salome Zurabishvili to pardon Grigoriadis. Tamta Kalandadze, Grigoriadis’ mother, confirmed that they will immediately ask President Zurabishvili for a pardon.
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