Assassination of the Patriarch of Georgia shocked the local Church

The police of Georgia detained a priest on suspicion that he was planning to poison high-ranking cleric, possibly the same Patriarch Elias B!…
The prosecutor’s office announced that detected cyanide in the luggage. Djordje Μαμαλάτζε, when he was arrested at the airport of Tbilisi before boarding an aircraft which carried him to Germany.
The head of the Church of Georgia, Patriarch Elijah, B is a patient in a hospital in Germany, but it’s not 100% for sure that he was the target of the conspiracy.
The Georgian government says that it “prevented a great καταστρροφή”.
“Averted a treacherous attack on the Church,” said the prime minister Djordje Κβιρικασβίλι.
The e. Μαμαλάτζε is head of the property management services of the Patriarchate, and director of the medical centre “Joachim and Anna” in Georgia.
Speaking in the Georgian network Rustavi-2 TV the advocate general Hercules Σοτάτζε said that the police officers who investigated the home. Μαμαλάτζε they found a makeshift gun.
The accused priest was asked by someone -not named – to sell cyanide and he was the one who called the police, revealed to the prosecutor.
The 84χρονος today Patriarch Elias B holds since 1977 the reins of the Georgian Orthodox Church, which suffered persecution on the soviet regime, but revived after the country’s independence in 1991. Over 80% of the population of 4.5 million. of Agriculture shall declare to be Orthodox Christians.
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