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The Action of Traders Dispersed in Batumi

August 26, 2004

The Action of Traders Dispersed in Batumi

 

Batumi. 26.08.04. Media News.Law-enforcement officials have dispersed the action organised by the Central Market traders held in front of the presidential administration in Batumi.
 
The traders protested against moving to the Bone Trade Center with approximately 800 demonstrators demanding to meet the governmental representatives. According to the protesters, the conditions in Boni Trade Center is inadmissible for them and they have asked that they be able to stay in the old market places until the end of the year.
 
Murman Beridze, the Mayor of Batumi, denies the fact of the dispersal of the action. According to him, the people who were the organisers of the action were ruled by private interests.
 
“They want to govern the market in order to lead the trading process. But the government does not give them such opportunity. These are the people who supported Aslan Abashidze, the former leader of Adjara, but now they will fail in their tricks.”

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