Elene Khoshtaria, the leader of the domestic opposition Droa party, on Wednesday said she was an organiser of violent protest rallies in Georgia’s capital city of Tbilisi.

Georgian police on Wednesday detained seven individuals on charges of "organizing and leading a group violence, participating in group violence" amid the protest rallies. The law enforcement officers seized helmets, respirators, a large number of fireworks, electronic transmission devices, computer equipment, Molotov cocktails, paints, and different types of solutions.

“It"s very funny, they are registering lasers, paints, and I explained to them that this police is the Russian police, this police is the anti-constitutional police, this police serves [Bidzina] Ivanishvili [the founder and Honorary Chair of the ruling Georgian Dream party], this police is going against Europe, so it doesn"t matter to me at all what they search, what they do, who they accuse of what”, Khoshtaria said.

“I told them myself that yes, I am the organiser and I take responsibility for these [protest] rallies. Of course, this is the decision of the [Georgian] people and [it is Georgian] people"s protest rally, but yes, we use all this at the rallies. They are very enthusiastically [looking for] lasers, let"s leave it, we will buy it, we will bring it, we will continue doing exactly the same thing we were doing”, she concluded.

Teimuraz Kupatadze, the Director of the Central Criminal Police Department of the Georgian Interior Ministry on Wednesday said "based on the Court decision, investigative activities are being conducted in the offices of Jiuti movement, political parties Droa, and Girchi, as well as in the youth office of the United National Movement party. As a result of the personal search of the arrested persons, the law enforcement officers removed the following items as evidence: helmets, respirators, a large number of pyrotechnics, electronic transmission devices, computer equipment, the so called Molotov cocktails, paints, different types of solutions, for which appropriate examinations have been assigned".