Anger is growing in Georgia. This Sunday, several cities in the former Soviet Republic experienced their fourth consecutive night of mobilization. Particularly violent clashes broke out between pro-European Union (EU) demonstrators and the armed arms of the “Georgian Dream” party, considered pro-Russian.
While the government has just firmly ruled out the organization of new legislative elections, although demanded by the opposition and by the country's president Salomé Zourabichvili, the tone has risen a notch in both camps since Thursday. Videos are multiplying on
These are real fireworks
In the video below, we see what appears to be a man, wearing a balaclava, using a cannon and shooting fireworks from it. If a lot of content circulating on X tends to corroborate the use of such a technique, this video could cause confusion as the device seems unreal. However, the images are true and the fireworks are real.
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“The product in the video is an artisanal assembly of 20-shot, 10-millimeter candles, probably around a hundred pieces and at a very high rate of fire,” Mathieu Prévot, general manager of the company Jacques Prévot Artifice, tells us. Although particularly impressive, it seems that the machine is not so powerful for the person holding it, if we are to believe our expert: “The man in the video manages to hold it at arm's length. » If the mechanical effects are almost non-existent, there would however be “a risk of burns which should not be neglected” when handling such equipment. On the other hand, these fires are particularly dissuasive for the targets facing them: “It is extremely difficult to send men into the firing range of such a product because we no longer see anything,” concludes the pyrotechnician.
The Ministry of the Interior announced Monday, December 2 that 21 police officers had received injuries, some of them “serious,” during the demonstrations and clashes the day before. In total, 224 people have been arrested since the start of the rallies last week, the Georgian ministry added in a press release.
