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He was 37 years old and had half a million followers on Instagram. On Wednesday, September 18, the top model was found brutally stabbed in her home. A murder that takes place the day after the adoption of the law against “propaganda of same-sex relations” in Georgia.
More than 500 thousand people followed him on his social networks. Actress and model Kesaria Abramidze died on Wednesday, September 18, at her home from “multiple stab wounds”, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia. According to the authorities, the murder is related to the influencer’s gender, 37 years old. His assassination came two days after the vote to restrict LGBT+ rights against “same-sex propaganda” was condemned as oppressive by the European Union and the United States.
“Georgian Dream”
While Georgia, a former Soviet republic with a predominantly Orthodox Christian faith, aims to join the European Union and NATO, Georgian Dream, the country’s ruling center-left political party, is taking a conservative and anti-Western turn. President Salome Zurabishvili, who is pro-Western and broke with the Georgian Dream government, condemned the “horrific murder” of Kesaria Abramidze. “This tragedy should wake up the Georgian society,” he wrote on Facebook.
Kesaria Abramidze previously accused the state authorities of effectively fighting against domestic violence. In April, she wrote on social networks that she was being abused by her partner, who was caught “in a toxic relationship for two years”. Claiming to fear for her life, she claimed she was forced to seek temporary refuge abroad. “Not femicide, which has become so frequent in our country,” he said. So far, the killer of Kesaria Abramidze has not been officially identified, but it could be the latter. Surveillance footage from the building where he lived shows him ringing his doorbell on the day of the murder and running away 10 minutes later.
The first public figure to openly discuss her gender transition, Kesaria Abramidze represented the country at the Miss Trans Star International Pageant in 2018. The Office of the Human Rights Commissioner of Georgia assessed in a 2022 report that the LGBT+ community was a victim of “persistent discrimination and violence”. The legislation passed this week, which still needs to be signed into law before it takes effect, bans “promotion of same-sex relations and profanity” in educational institutions and television broadcasts, and restricts “gatherings and demonstrations.” Human rights groups have criticized this wording, which equates incest with homosexuality.
Source: Le Figaro
