TBILISI. – Georgia’s new Internal Affairs Minister Irakli Gharibashvili has taken under his personal supervision the case that is opened into the death of ten-month-old Armenian Barbara Rafayelyants, reads the statement that is posted Tuesday on the ministry website.   

“This case has not yet been solved,” the statement adds. Also, it is stressed that, “maximum resources and efforts will be put to use to find out the causes for Barbara Rafayelyants’ death,” Novosti Gruzia News Agency reports.          

To note, the dead body of ten-month-old Varvara (Barbara) Rafayelyants was found in a large wine jar in a Georgian village on September 30, that is, a day before the country’s parliamentary elections. The baby’s parents had linked this incident with the political activities of their female relative, who was an activist of the then-opposition Georgian Dream coalition. The child had died as a result of asphyxiation.