The Georgian government is facing outrage after a BBC investigation alleging that the government used World War I-era chemical toxins on protesters demonstrating against the government’s moves to bring the country closer to Russia. Georgians flooded the streets last year after the ruling Georgian Dream party declared it was halting the EU-Atlantic integration.

The BBC’s findings point to a possibility that the Georgian government mixed the toxin camite with water, and then sprayed it at tens of thousands of protesters through water cannons. The claim is unconfirmed, but the evidence gathered from victims, medical data showing weekslong symptoms, and accounts from former riot-police officials point to a substance far more potent and persistent than standard crowd-control agents. This comes after last December, when more than 900 Georgian doctors demanded that the government disclose what exactly had been used after people reported persistent symptoms. They received no answer.

Camite, or bromobenzyl cyanide, was developed by the French military during........

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