The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the arrest of members of a neo-Nazi group.

Sixteen people, including ten minors, have been arrested by police in Tbilisi as members of a neo-Nazi group. At least ten people were injured by the radicals, the Ministry of Internal Affairs stated.

The arrested individuals identified themselves as neo-Nazis and adhered to fascist ideology, according to law enforcement. They attacked people, filmed the violence, and distributed the videos on online platforms "to increase the group's visibility."

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the group's victims included people of various ages, including at least four teenagers. They were subjected to psychological and physical abuse, as well as degrading treatment. The group used violence against people who did not share their views to "increase their influence," a ministry representative said at a briefing.

During searches of the suspects, security forces seized mobile phones and other electronic devices, masks, Nazi symbols, and bladed and sound weapons. The investigation is ongoing. The case is being investigated under Article 144 of the Georgian Criminal Code for inhumane treatment of minors committed by a group by prior conspiracy, which carries a sentence of up to ten years in prison.

Two local neo-Nazi leaders, Levan Abesadze and Davit Japarov, are already serving sentences on similar charges, JAMNews reports, citing a statement from the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On its Facebook page*, the ministry released footage of the attacks, filmed and posted by the group members themselves. The attacks took place on the streets and in abandoned buildings. The victims were subjected to group beatings – the attackers kicked and beat them in the body and face with batons, stood on them, and raised their arms in a Nazi salute. At least one of the victims was forced to crawl on all fours on the ground, holding him by a leash attached to his neck. The faces of both the group members and the victims are hidden in the video. Items seized from the suspects included knives, brass knuckles, metal chains, telescopic batons, pendants, and rings with swastikas.

A supporter of Georgia's European integration was among the victims of a neo-Nazi group

The Nazi Video Monitoring project, which tracks the activity of neo-Nazi groups, recalled that on December 31, the Georgian Prosecutor's Office announced the sentencing of nine defendants in a "fascist group" detained in early July 2025. The court found them guilty of attacking a 15-year-old schoolboy in Tbilisi.

“The defendants lured the teenager to an abandoned construction site and brutally beat him, filming the entire incident on a phone. They stabbed him and began stomping him when he fell to the ground. Then, threatening him with a bladed weapon and a firearm, they forced the schoolboy to kneel and apologize to the group’s leader via video link,” the news agency “News Georgia” reported.

The Tbilisi City Court found all nine participants in the attack guilty, one of them was found guilty of organizing the massacre. Six of the defendants, all minors, were sentenced to 7.5 years in prison, while three adults received the maximum sentence of 10 years.

The injured teenager was a regular participant in protests on Rustaveli Avenue. Levan Abesadze's group orchestrated the massacre because he said, "I don't like fascists," activist Tamar Totladze wrote after the attack in July 2025.

According to Totladze, the young man was lured into an abandoned building by a girl he had known for three months at the time. "They stabbed him, forced him to the ground, and completely stripped him naked... At that moment, the 15-year-old was stabbed in the throat, and he had no choice," she wrote on her Facebook page*.