Opponents of the LGBT rights march in Tbilisi, Georgia. They broke into the organizers’ offices and attacked journalists

Dozens of journalists and cameramen, according to the Interfax agency, suffered injuries caused by bats and stones, several of which had to be hospitalized. Injured journalists were visited at the hospital by President Salome Zurabishvili, who condemned the violence.

The Western embassies, the European Union and the UN in a joint statement have previously condemned the attacks on civil activists and journalists, as well as the indifference of state and church officials, and called on the Georgian authorities to apprehend and punish the perpetrators, Georgia Online wrote. The list of embassies named by the server lacks representations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia in Tbilisi.

The Georgian news server Agenda.ge wrote that the organizers of Tbilisi Pride canceled the event planned for Monday evening due to the shameful remarks of Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and the inaction of the Interior Ministry, which failed to ensure the safety of participants from the right-wing protest demonstration.

“We cannot endanger human lives in the streets full of rapists,” the organizers write in a statement. March director Giorgi Tabagari claims that the radicals would not be able to mobilize and cancel the march without support from the state apparatus. “We changed places five times, but they found us immediately every time. How is it possible? How would they be able to mobilize so effectively without the support of state security forces and the state? ”He wrote on Facebook.