Tbilisi Mayor alleges only buildings under construction, with no people living in, were dismantled yesterday

I want to declare with full responsibility that only buildings under construction were dismantled in the Africa settlement yesterday and no families, no people were living in the buildings, - Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze said at the Tbilisi City Hall session.

According to him, the theft of state property is unacceptable and inadmissible.

"I would like to respond to the events that took place in the African settlement yesterday, where the municipal inspection dismantled the buildings under construction within the framework of law. I have talked about this topic many times and I will repeat that, unfortunately, we have many such districts in the city, districts where lands were illegally seized and buildings were illegally built there.

I want to declare with full responsibility that only buildings under construction were dismantled in the Africa settlement yesterday and no families, no people were living in the buildings. Of course, people live around this area have houses built on seized lands and they live there with their families. We, of course, did not touch those families and only dismantled the facilities where under construction.

It is unacceptable and inadmissible to seize state property and treat state property like they do," Kakha Kaladze said.

According to him, poor living conditions and difficult social situation do not mean that citizens should steal anything.