The Polish authorities will not stop fighting for President Saakashvili’s health, we have offered him treatment many times in our country. He was poisoned with neurotoxins while already in a Georgian prison, deputy chairman of the Sejm Małgorzata Gosiewska told PAP.
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An attempt was made to poison a politician imprisoned in Georgia
In mid-December 2022, Mikheil Saakashvili, the leader of the opposition and former president of Georgia, who is in prison in Georgia, wrote a letter published by the French daily Le Monde asking French President Emmanuel Macron for help.
“Putin considers me one of his main enemies. He publicly promised to kill me. Now I’m imprisoned as his private prisoner”
wrote the former president.
A politician imprisoned in Georgia was tried to be poisoned, San Francisco toxicologist David Smith says in a Nov. 28 report. The five-page document said “tests showed heavy metals” in the former president’s body, including arsenic and mercury.
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“He dies before our eyes”
Deputy Chairman of the Sejm Małgorzata Gosiewska said in an interview with PAP that the health of the former president is “seriously at risk”.
We can say that he dies in front of our eyes, in front of the whole world, and at least the Georgian authorities have a hand in this
she stressed. She added that Polish authorities “will not stop fighting for President Saakashvili’s health”.
Gosiewska stressed that representatives of the Polish authorities, including President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, and Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, have raised the issue of Saakashvili’s imprisonment in bilateral talks with Georgia and “at many meetings in international formats”.
We have often suggested in conversations and letters that Saakashvili should be admitted to Poland for treatment. There is no permission for that. We have asked and suggested that his health be assessed by an international medical board. There is no permission for it
– she said. She added that Saakashvili has “lost a lot of weight and physical fitness” in recent weeks, which would be a result of poisoning him with neurotoxins.
These neurotoxins somehow entered President Saakashvili’s body during his imprisonment, so the Georgian authorities are directly responsible and will bear the consequences
she noted.
Another Georgia…
The deputy marshal of the Sejm said today’s Georgia is a different country from the one ruled by Saakashvili after the 2003 “Rose Revolution”.
Georgia is currently a country that allows Russia to evade sanctions with impunity
she stressed. She added that Russians are settling in the country en masse, taking over local businesses and “can buy Georgian citizenship”.
Gosiewska stressed that according to her, today’s Georgian authorities are subservient to the oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, who cooperates with Russia, without whose consent Saakashvili will not be released.
Ivanishvili should have long ago been sanctioned by the European Union and the entire civilized world for hindering his business and travel opportunities
she added.
The former Georgian president, convicted of abuse of power in his country, is now in a hospital in Tbilisi, from where he was transferred from prison. Saakashvili was detained in autumn 2021 after returning from Ukraine. During his stay in Ukraine, he held government positions and obtained citizenship of this country.
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Source: wPolityce