Staff at the private Vivamedi clinic, where prisoner Mikheil Saakashvili is being treated, receive threatening messages, clinical director Zurab Chkhaidze told reporters on January 31.
Chkhaidze said that Saakashvili, who has been in the clinic for treatment since May 2022, behaves inappropriately, aggressively and threatens medical staff. He also said that he and his relatives began to receive threats by phone and social networks.
“Staff are under unimaginable stress because they have resorted to threats. Not us specifically, but family members.”he said.
Chkhaidze added that law enforcement would handle all cases of threats.
At the moment, Saakashvili’s partners and lawyers are compiling a “Saakashvili list” by analogy with the “Magnitsky list”, which includes the Minister of Justice of Georgia, employees of the prison service, judges and prosecutors.
Earlier, the general director of the Vivamedi clinic, Nino Nadiradze, said that she was threatened with sanctions. She also claimed that Saakashvili’s lawyer called a nurse into the room and said that she would be put on the list of people who should be arrested.
Also read: The nurse told how Saakashvili refused medicine and food.
Let us remember that Saakashvili’s lawyers, instead of proving his innocence, have opted for a strategy in which they try to obtain from the court a postponement of serving the sentence for health reasons. They also try to show that the former president is so stressed in conditions of restriction of freedom that he cannot eat or be treated. Doctors from the Vivamedi Center accuse the politician of sabotaging the treatment.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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