Tbilisi Mayor Kakha Kaladze sharply criticized the BBC on Monday, calling its recently published report “sheer nonsense” and accusing the outlet of fabricating information about Georgia.
Speaking to Georgian journalists, Kaladze said the country was “under attack” from what he described as a deliberate campaign to spread false narratives.
“The information published by the BBC is sheer nonsense. If any kind of dirt can be imagined, they do everything to fabricate it,” Kaladze said. “You can see how our country is under attack — they do everything to spread information entirely filled with lies.”
He added that he did not consider the allegations serious enough to warrant a detailed response. “I don’t even know if it’s worth giving a serious answer to this type of nonsense,” the mayor remarked.
The BBC report in question claims that evidence collected by its journalists suggests the Georgian government allegedly used chemical agents dating back to the World War I era to suppress anti-government protests last year — an allegation Georgian officials have strongly denied.
