Police Search for Bush Grenade Suspect, Increase Bounty

Police have no identity of the suspect.

The Georgian Interior Ministry unveiled photos of a young man on July 18 who is suspected in tossing a hand-grenade into a crowd while U.S. President George W. Bush was addressing thousands of Georgians from Freedom Square in Tbilisi on May 10, 2005.

“Unfortunately, we do not know this person’s identity… The Georgian Interior Ministry announces a reward of 150,000 Lari [about USD 82,000] for valuable information that may help us identify the suspect,” Vano Merabishvili, the Interior Minister, said a news conference on July 18.

Initially the Georgian Interior Ministry was offering only a 20,000 (USD 11,000) Lari reward for valuable information on the grenade case.

Below are the links to the photos of a suspect posted on the Interior Ministry’s web-site:

https://www.police.gehttps://old.civil.ge/files/50050_2356_705109_3.jpg
https://www.police.gehttps://old.civil.ge/files/50050_2356_320463_4.jpg

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