Sokhumi Claims Tbilisi’s Head Behind Blasts
Abkhaz official has alleged that “the Georgian special services” were behind two blasts, which killed two and injured three people, in breakaway region on August 12.
Explosive devices went off in Gagra and Sokhumi on the day when Russian PM Vladimir Putin was visiting breakaway Abkhazia.
“We have to assume that it has been done by the Georgian special services, which can not accept recognition of Abkhazia [by Russia], as well as the visit of the head of the Russian government,” Abkhaz news agency, Apsnipress, reported quoting Beslan Kvitsiani, deputy chief prosecutor of the breakaway region.
He also said that the same type of explosive was used in both of the incidents.
Meanwhile, Terry Davis, secretary general of Council of Europe, said in a statement on August 14, that explosions in Abkhazia “can only be described as terrorism.”
“It is time for everyone in the South Caucasus to recognise that terrorism is a crime and totally unacceptable in today’s Europe,” he said.
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