On 18 December, the Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia promised “very tough punishment” for those, ‘no matter their status or rank’, whose guilt would be revealed by the State Inspector’s Office in pushing 15-year-old Luka Siradze to suicide on 11 December, reported agenda.ge. 

Gakharia already undertook certain steps in addressing this issue. He instructed the Interior Ministry to take all measures to ensure the investigative environment was appropriate for minors by ensuring that all involved investigators and managers were are qualified to work with minors. The Health and Education ministries are to present a plan on eradication of systemic problems regarding minors in a week’s time. The Justice Ministry is also to present a bill on additional guarantees for minors who will have to maintain contact with state institutions.

The Georgian State Inspector’s Office, a newly created independent agency investigating alleged offences committed by law enforcers, has pointed at possible problems at school, not only at the police station, which could have driven Siradze to commit suicide. The head of the agency Londa Toloraia also dismissed the reports that the case investigator Mariana Choloiani was detained only after the minor’s death. “We were waiting for [evidence to be collected] and as soon as the evidence [was] present the decision was made. The investigation is in progress and everyone, whose guilt will be revealed based on evidence, will be held accountable. No question marks will remain around the case,” she said.

The United Nations Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) in Georgia also responded to the issue. It called on the authorities to ensure children’s rights in the juvenile justice system. UNICEF submitted the following recommendations to the Georgian government: 1) the creation of special units or designate specialized professionals who will work only on children’s cases in the police system and in all agencies involved in the administration of juvenile justice; 2) that specialized professionals should be selected carefully and monitored regularly; 3) they should also familiarize and sensitize mid-level management on child rights; and 4) that all child witnesses of crime with legal assistance at any stage of contact with the justice system should be provided. 

On 11 December, Luka Siradze attempted to commit suicide after facing psychological pressure at Tbilisi Didube-Chugureti police station over a week prior. He died on 17 December due to the injuries he sustained from the suicide attempt. His family and lawyer said that the boy suffered psychological distress from law enforcers who wanted him to admit to the crime of damaging the property of one of the private schools in Tbilisi and writing vulgar phrases on its walls. The Interior Ministry confirmed that the minor had spent only “3-4 minutes alone” with one of the police officers before the beginning of the interrogation as the minor “had a conflict with his mother and the police officer tried to calm the situation”. Toloraia stated that her office had been investigating the case since 12 December, and that  70 witnesses have been questioned since then, including the minor’s classmates, friends and their parents, neighbours, school administration, teachers and security managers, and every person, who might have any information.