Crime in Shovi

Author - Gela Mtivlishvili / Shovi moments after disaster and Shovi case 80 days later. What happened in Shovi? Was a natural disaster in the resort foreseeable, and could the lives have been saved? A flood occurring 3 years back in the same valley, same river, and an unfinished dam from 3 years ago, which was supposed to save lives. What turned a flourishing resort into a site of an unprecedented catastrophe? How is the investigation into the Shovi case being conducted? What did the Shovi resort project envision, with 18-meter hotels planned directly in the path of a predictable landslide. A rescue operation ‘‘whoever survived, survived’’.