The officers of Tbilisi Police Department and Samtskhe-Javakheti Police Department of the MIA, as a result of joint operative-searching and investigative activities arrested Levan M (D.o.B.: 1975) in Borjomi for infliction of grave injury to Aleksi Petriashvili and the assault against him.
The investigation established that the accused, along with his accomplice, on February 26, this year in the vicinity of the St. George's church, at the Brothers’ cemetery in Saburtalo, Tbilisi assaulted Mr. Aleksi Petriashvili. Levan M. - with his accomplice – inflicted the injuries to Aleksi Petriashvili in the head with a hammer and the wounds with gunshots, then hit him several times with a baton. The attackers fled away. Law enforcers seized the item used for commitment of the offence – a hammer and a hat of an accused as evidences from the scene.
Police detained Levan M. in several days in Borjomi.
The analysis of the genetic profiles – DNA - taken from the inner surface of the hat and a handle of the hammer revealed they were identical to the genetic profile of Levan M. In addition, the analysis of the genetic profile of human blood on the hammer showed its identity to the genetic profile of Aleksi Petriashvili.
Operative-searching measures are underway for detention of an accomplice of Levan M.
The investigation is in progress on the fact of intentional infliction of grave injury (part 5, article 117 of the Criminal Code of Georgia).
