The alleged murderer of influencer and model Kesaria Abramidze was arrested at an airport when he was preparing to leave the country
The most famous transgender model in Georgia, Kesaria Abramidze, was killed on Wednesday, just one day after the country's parliament approved a pThe controversial law against LGBT propaganda despite Western condemnation. A suspect has been arrested for the murder.
The victim, 37, was a blogger and model with half a million followers on social media, as well as being the most famous trans woman in the world. Georgia.
Kesaria Abramidze She was stabbed to death on Wednesday night in her apartment in suburban Tbilisi, according to the Ministry of Georgian Interior.
The alleged murderer intended to flee
La Police arrested the alleged murderer, a 26-year-old young man identified as Beka Dzhaiani, at the airport Kutaisi, Georgia's second largest city, as he was preparing to leave the country. The man was reportedly in a relationship with the model.
Abramidze She was one of the first transgender public figures in the country. In 2014 she announced her gender change and four years later she participated in the beauty pageant Miss Trans Star International en Spain.
Anti LGTBI law
His murder occurred just 24 hours after the Georgian Parliament approved in third and final reading the controversial law of 'Family values and the protection of minors', which prohibits the propaganda of non-traditional relationships.
84 deputies of the ruling party voted in favor Georgian Dream, in a vote boycotted by the opposition. The law prohibits in particular same-sex marriages and the adoption of children by homosexual couples. It also establishes a prison sentence of between one and four years for sex-change surgery.
Advertising homosexual relations in educational institutions carries a fine of up to 4.000 lari (about 1.500 dollars). Meanwhile, distributing materials about sex change or homosexual relations will carry fines of up to 3.000 lari (about 1.100 dollars). Public meetings or gatherings are also prohibited. demonstrations in favor of the community LGTBI.
This is the second law censored by West and approved in Georgia in the last four months after the law of Transparency of Foreign Influence, which its detractors compare to similar regulations in Russia to silence dissent.
