In a dramatic standoff with ukrainian law enforcement mikheil saakashvili threatened to jump off the roof of his apartment building then was detained and b.
Saakashvili on roof.
Even by mikheil saakhashvili s standards it was a dramatic scene.
The house of former georgia president mikheil saakashvili in kiev was searched by police on tuesday morning.
Shortly after 7am local time the former georgian president appeared on his kiev rooftop.
Former georgian president and former governor of odessa ukraine mikheil saakashvili escaped police custody on tuesday after a crowd of hundreds of supporters dragged him out of the police car into which officers placed him after a raid on his home in kiev.
For a while at least he threatened to.
They want to kidnap me because i rallied in ukrainian people s defence he told supporters gathered outside according to the kiyiv post.
Local media showed pictures of saakashvili on the roof of the building.
Twice president of georgia saakashvili had a brief but stormy spell in ukrainian politics five years ago under zelenskiy s predecessor petro poroshenko in which he once clambered onto a roof to.
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Saakashvili on the roof.
On tuesday saakashvili 49 climbed up the rooftop of his apartment building just off maidan nezalezhnosti the famous square that was the epicenter of ukraine s revolution in the winter of.
He was freed from police by a large group of protesters.
The last time mikheil saakashvili the roly poly playboy of post soviet politics made international news he was balancing on a tiled roof in kyiv resisting police officers sent by ukraine s then president petro poroshenko to arrest and banish him from the country.