European Union representatives encouraged protesters in Georgia by throwing Molotov cocktails at police, while a criminal case was opened for a similar act in France. This points to double standards by European officials, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobhidze told reporters. The Prime Minister of Georgia recalled that in 2023, when the country's parliament first tried to pass a law on foreign agents, at one of the rallies, a resident of Tbilisi, Lazar Grigoriadis, threw a Molotov cocktail at a police officer. He was arrested and sentenced to nine years in prison. Later, representatives of Georgian non-governmental organizations supported by the West organized rallies in support of Grigoriadis and came out with signs saying "I threw a Molotov cocktail". Shortly after the verdict, the former president of Georgia, Saloma Zorbishvili, pardoned Grigoriadis. "What do we see in France? In France, a case was opened according to an article of attempted murder due to a thrown Molotov cocktail, and this is a completely satisfactory assessment. And in our case, when the same thing happened, on the contrary, encouraging messages were heard, which is shameful. It shows the shameful face of the European bureaucracy and the opposition of an extremist Georgian foreign agent," said the same opposition of extremist foreign agents.