German federal prosecutors believe Russian intelligence was involved in the August killing of a Georgian citizen in Berlin and want to take over the investigation, a legal source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a report by public broadcaster ARD.
The measure could raise tensions between Germany — and other western countries — and Russia, after strains over the poisoning of a former Russian spy, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter on British soil last year.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, who had previously fought alongside anti-Moscow separatists in the Russian region of Chechnya, was shot twice in the head in a central Berlin park in August as he was heading to a mosque.
“We have evidence that a foreign intelligence agency was behind it and therefore the case is going to be taken over by the federal prosecutor this week,” said the source, who declined to be named.
A suspect was detained shortly after the killing and Der Spiegel weekly has reported that his passport number links him to Russian security services.
Berlin prosecutors, who have so far led the case, said the suspect had been caught as he tried to dispose of the presumptive murder weapon in the nearby Spree River, along with a bicycle he had been riding.
Russia fought major campaigns in 1994-96 and 1999-2000 against separatists in Chechnya, situated in the Caucasus Mountains on Russia’s border with Georgia. Many anti-Moscow fighters from those wars now live in exile and are at odds with the pro-Russian authorities in Chechnya.
(c) The Moscow Times
Germany will do nothing, huff and puff then sweep it under the carpet.
They will respond. They are tough!
They will…
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The krauts sweep a lot more underneath their carpet, in particular with crimes from Merkel’s third-world guests. It’s already as high as the hills!
The assassin had a fake passport and identity which could only be provided by the Russian state.
Modern counter-intelligence methods almost guarantee that most attempts to give operatives a fake ID will now be found out.
Security services know this which would indicate that Putin doesn’t care if the world knows , and why should he. He has done this many times with zero consequences.
That is true, and sad. Just like the invasion of Georgia and arguably the refusal to pull out of Transnistria before that. If bullies don’t suffer a penalty, they will return and repeat their crimes, you can bet on it.
The West and Europe’s tendancy to turn a blind eye to these murders
Is a huge mistake.
There has to be a point where governments draws a line. The price of appeasement, as history has taught us, is too steep.
I think that is why the raunchy rodent uses a slow walking strategy. He wants to kill and he wants to keep it quiet so people slowly get used to it. We hear this already from some European nations that they are “tired” of the war in Ukraine. Slowly the narrative shifts to Ukraine instead of Moskali fascism, theft and murder.
Europe ” tired of the war “. Give me a break. It’s more about the huge dependency on cheap Russian energy and on the Russian money that pours into Western economies, especially in London.
Tired of somebody else’s war, but doing little to stop Russian aggression.
The number of European politicians and intellectuals who justify Russian aggression is growing and expanding.Europe wants trade with Russia and is quite happy to accept Russian money in its capitals without questioning its origin, and so many leaders echo the voices of pro-Kremlin politicians, think tanks, newspapers, and intellectuals as a result. Money talks.
This is a prime example.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/tucker-carlson-for-all-his-faults-putin-doesnt-hate-america-as-much-as-chuck-todd-does
“…has reported that his passport number links him to Russian security services”
Germanystan doesn’t check passports from people who don’t look to be of European origin.
“The measure could raise tensions between Germany — and other western countries — and Russia”
Let us hear a round of raucous laugh!
The krauts will send the dwarf foreign minister Maas to Moscow to settle things and after the other dwarf Poopin kisses his belly softly and tenderly everything will be okay. Nord Stream II is in no danger, folks.