Five months after this attack, Keston News Service reported that a lawyer for Guram Sharadze, the leader of the political movement “Georgia Above All!, ” admitted that Sharadze had influenced the authorities in Marneuli and Zugdidi to prevent the holding of two conventions of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Lima bulan setelah serangan ini, Kantor Berita Keston melaporkan bahwa seorang pengacara untuk Guram Sharadze, pemimpin gerakan politik ” Georgia di atas Segalanya! ”, mengakui bahwa Sharadze telah mempengaruhi kalangan berwenang di Marneuli dan Zugdidi untuk mencegah terselenggaranya dua kebaktian Saksi - Saksi Yehuwa.