Saakashvili had reportedly threatened to jump off his rooftop during his arrest before multiple police officers forcibly removed him from the home.
Saakashvili on roof.
For a while at least he threatened to.
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Saakashvili on the roof.
The last time mikheil saakashvili the roly poly playboy of post soviet politics made international news he was balancing on a tiled roof in kyiv resisting police officers sent by ukraine s then president petro poroshenko to arrest and banish him from the country.
In a dramatic standoff with ukrainian law enforcement mikheil saakashvili threatened to jump off the roof of his apartment building then was detained and b.
He was freed from police by a large group of protesters.
On tuesday saakashvili 49 climbed up the rooftop of his apartment building just off maidan nezalezhnosti the famous square that was the epicenter of ukraine s revolution in the winter of.
Shortly after 7am local time the former georgian president appeared on his kiev rooftop.
On 5 december 2017 saakashvili who was leading anti government protests at the time was temporarily detained by ukraine s security service on the roof of his apartment building in central kyiv and his apartment was searched.
Former georgian president and former governor of odessa ukraine mikheil saakashvili escaped police custody on tuesday after a crowd of hundreds of supporters dragged him out of the police car into which officers placed him after a raid on his home in kiev.
Even by mikheil saakhashvili s standards it was a dramatic scene.
They want to kidnap me because i rallied in ukrainian people s defence he told supporters gathered outside according to the kiyiv post.
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