Georgian special forces stormed the church, where he served Liturgy protopresviter Basil Mkalavishvili,
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assault began when Father Basil Presanctified liturgy in the church, located in Gldani district. During the attack on the church hundreds of Saakashvili thugs who were in the church congregation were trying to protect the abbot, they hunted with tear gas and clubbed. About 20 people, among them children, were wounded, three of them were taken to hospital, defensively they set fire to a car commandos. Pogrom directed personally head the Internal Affairs Directorate and Chairman Georgian National Security Council, obviously. Basil's worst security threat that Chechen terrorists are just kittens compared with him.
Now Father Basil is in jail. He was wanted by police since June 2003, refusing to comply with the decision of Tbilisi court and jailed on charges of burning of the Baptist and iegovistskoy paper. Along with him was arrested a priest Gabriel Neymiridze and 8 other members.
Father Basil came out of Georgia Patriarchate in 1995, he now belongs to the "Synod in Resistance" True Orthodox Church of Greece under the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Fili and Oropos Cyprian. In retaliation, he was excommunicated from the GP and was deprived of dignity, though he did not recognize. In Georgia, it is known as the organizer of the crowded stock in defense of Orthodoxy.
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