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After the riots near the capital of Seimas, the municipality announced on Wednesday that it will revoke the permits agreed for neighborhood meetings, and commercial and cultural events will be held.
“All the assembly permits issued so far have been revoked and we will review them in light of the new context that we saw after yesterday’s events (…). The commercial and cultural events that have been planned will take place, ”Deputy Director of Administration Adomas Bužinskas told reporters on Wednesday.
He also said that the municipality had approached the Department of Homeland Security (SSD) to parliament after the riots, asking for an assessment from both the organizers of the previous rally and future meetings.
Among other things, according to A. Bužinskas, the current Assemblies Law has loopholes.
We also see that the current Assemblies Law slightly limits the municipality’s resolution possibilities, so we will apply the Seimas with amendments to the law that would slightly empower the municipality to make more decisions and hold people accountable if they do not do so. implement them ”, said the municipal representative.
“Currently, the municipality is only authorized to issue a permit and if something goes wrong according to the plan, as we saw yesterday, we as an institution cannot take any action or impose fines,” he added.
The next protest is in early September.
The deputy director of the municipal administration said that several permits had been revoked and that the next meeting for which the permit had been issued was scheduled for September 10.
“There are some of them that are being broadcast in advance, all of which will be reviewed. There is also an edition for 2022, and we will review it. It’s a variety of events, from people protesting against vaccines to people protesting for human rights in Belarus. (…)
On September 10, a campaign is planned in the center of the capital “Stop the dictatorship in Lithuania, let’s return Lithuania to the nation, YES – for the liberation of the Seimas”, the permit was issued at 7-15 thousand. people.
According to BNS, the organizer of this event is one of the organizers of the “Family Defense March”, the former “regular” Raimondas Grinevičius.
The municipality promises to reconsider all requests for meetings in consultation with the police and other authorities.
The decision was made after a rally near the Seimas on Tuesday turned into a riot by night.
About 5,000. People had gathered at an authorized rally near the Seimas in Vilnius to protest against planned government restrictions on people who do not have immunity to the coronavirus and are not getting tested.
After the Seimas session, some of the protesters blocked the exits of the parliamentary building and the exit of the inner courtyard of the Seimas. When they were taken from the building by officers, riots broke out: bottles were thrown at officers, flares were fired and tear gas was used at protesters. Fifteen officers were injured in the incident.
A pre-trial investigation into the riots has been launched, with 26 people arrested.
