Zviad Gamsakhurdiya's family members demand to be recognized as his successors

Family members of Zviad Gamsakhurdiya, the first Georgian President, have appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office with a request to declare members of his family his legal successors. This was reported by advocate Amiran Giguashvili.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in December 1993, Zviad Gamsakhurdiya died in a village of the Samegrelo Region in Western Georgia, where he hid from the authorities together with his several supporters. In 2015, the Prosecutor's Office announced the resumption of the investigation under the Article "Murder".

"So far, no member of the Zviad Gamsakhurdiya's family has been recognized as a legal successor to the victim. On the one hand, it is unfair, and on the one hand, it is an absurd, since if a murder was committed and a man was murdered, then, according to the law, a successor to the murdered person should be recognized," the "Sputnik-Georgia" quotes an advocate representing the interests of the Zviad Gamsakhurdiya's family members as reporting.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that in March, an action was held in Tbilisi with the demand to speed up the investigation into the Zviad Gamsakhurdiya's death. About 300 people took part in the action. According to sons of the first Georgian President, investigators delay the case.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.