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“It is not convenient for me to speculate, but it seems to me that this has already happened, and there is a risk that in other events it will happen that people who want to protest against certain government decisions want to be on one side,” I. Šimonytė said in an interview with the active diaspora portal citizenybė.lt.
“Among those people were those who are singled out for such overtly anti-state statements, say, Paleckis himself with his Jan. 13 appraisals or other activities that are the subject of both litigation and litigation. There are other people too, ”said the Prime Minister, and at the same time pointed out that at the rally near the Seimas there were also people who participated in the protests in the migrants’ accommodation and in the border area.
“As for the people we saw who spoke and expressed their views, there were also some people who were spotted both at the border and around the migrant camps,” he added.
I. Šimonytė emphasized that at the rally, those who equated the importance of this event with January 13 and who generally underestimated this important date for the state were at the same time.
“On the one hand, some people say what I think is blasphemy, that there is a fight as important here as on January 13, and that fight involves someone who says that on January 13 … we all know what he (Algirdas Paleckis – ELTA) said, and I would not like to repeat that displeasure, ”explained the Prime Minister, also emphasizing that the participants in the rallies still have to evaluate the opinions of the people they met.
“It seems like an attempt to be together because then the crowd looks bigger and maybe more convincing, but it seems to me that, purely in terms of values, it still matters who you are with and why you are together,” he said. .
At that time on September 10. According to the Prime Minister, the organizers of the planned rally do not even hide that the main objective of this event will not be to oppose the measures applied by the Government to COVID-19, but to question the foreign policy direction chosen by the state. usually.
“From the public speeches, we can already see such a declaration of interests, maybe without disguise, that, you know, vaccinations here, tests and all possible passports here, maybe that’s the way it is, because the main problem is that the Lithuania’s foreign policy has failed, we need to make friends with our neighbors and for the government to resign completely, ”said I. Šimonytė.
ELTA remembers that on August 10th. the protest against the COVID-19 restrictions that took place near the Seimas in the morning turned into riots. The rallies that blocked the entrances of the Seimas were rejected by the riot police who arrived at the scene. Riot police officers used tear gas against the protesters and took out the most malicious protesters. The police officers led the demonstrators away from the gates of the Seimas, allowing the parliamentarians to leave the Seimas.
