Georgian Authorities Destroy Illegal Tomato Plants Near Parliament Building

Georgian Authorities Destroy Illegal Tomato Plants Near Parliament Building

MosNews -- 14 tomato bushes were found on Tuesday in gardens near the Georgian parliament building in Tbilisi.

Georgian authorities have destroyed the bushes on which the tomatoes had already started to mature. Each bush was tied to a wooden stake.

The bushes were found on a lawn where the Georgian president’s Dutch wife, Sandra Roelofs, planted tulips.

The authorities were quoted by RIA-Novosti news agency as saying they did not know how the tomatoes appeared on “the main lawn of the country.”

Georgia led by Mikhail Saakashvili was the first ex-Soviet republic to start the wave of so-called “colored revolutions” not supported by the Kremlin and considered a form of westernization. However, there was no news of any political motives behind the planting of the tomatoes near the parliament building.

In recent months tomatoes have become the missile of choice for protestors in a number of former Soviet states.

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