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Pierrick YVON

Rival Football Fans Show Diversity Of Georgia's Pro-EU Protest Movement

Rival football fans have a shared fervour in opposing the governing Georgia Dream party that controversially claimed victory in October elections and then exacerbated the public anger by announcing last month it was suspending EU ascension talks (Credit: AFP)

Supporters of rival football teams have come together alongside artists, intellectuals and the internally displaced in Tbilisi as Georgian protesters celebrate their diversity in the unity of their opposition to the government, which they accuse of authoritarian drift.

On Sunday, fans of Spanish football teams Real Madrid and Barcelona -- who have one of the fiercest rivalries in sport -- marched together, side by side wearing each team's jerseys and scarfs, from the Philharmonic to Parliament.

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