German Prosecutor General indicts a suspect for killing Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, claims Russian federal bodies ordered the murder
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot on August 23, 2019 in Berlin on his way to Friday prayers. Photo: IPN.
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The Public Prosecutor General of Germany has indicted a suspect for killing Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, stating that Russian central governmental federal offices put out the hit on Khangoshvili, which was carried out by Russian citizen Vadim K. in August 2019.
Media report that the Russian Ambassador to Germany has been summoned to the German Foreign Ministry today regarding the issue.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot on August 23, 2019 in Berlin on his way to Friday prayers.
The German Prosecutor states that the assassination was preceded by Khangoshvili’s oppositional attitude towards the government of Russia and Chechnya.
The official statement of the German Prosecutor also reads that Khangoshvili fought on the side of Chechen separatists against the Russian Federal Army during the Second Chechen War and in 2008, during the Russia-Georgia war he gathered a group of warriors against Russia in the Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
In February 2020, Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website wrote that its month-long investigation with The Insider and Der Spiegel uncovered that the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was planned and organised by Russia’s FSB security agency.
Kremlin press-speaker Dmitry Peskov said on August 28, 2019 that Russia ‘’categorically denied any link between Russia and the incident.’’
Bellingcat, an investigative journalism website, writes that its months-long investigation, with The Insider and Der Spiegel, has uncovered that the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin last August ‘was planned and organized by Russia’s FSB security agency.’
Russia has declared two employees of the German embassy in Russia as persona non grata and summoned the German ambassador as a response to the expulsion of two Russian diplomats from Germany over the murder of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in the summer.
Germany has expelled two Russian citizens working in the Russian embassy in Berlin for their alleged involvement in the murder of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin in the summer, pointing at possible involvement of either Russian of Chechen authorities in the case.Khangoshvili, 40, who was shot dead in the Kleiner Tiergarten Park, Berlin, on August 23.
Moscow has denied any link to the assassination of an ethnic Chechen citizen of Georgia Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a veteran of the second Chechen War. Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, was shot dead on August 23 in Germany, while he was on his way to Friday prayers. Kremlin press-speaker Dmitry Peskov said on August 28 that Russia “categorically denies any link between Russia and the incident.”
The Embassy of Germany to Georgia says that the Federal Prosecution of Germany used ‘unclear phrasing when it called the Georgian government ‘pro-Russian’ in the statement related to the murder of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin.
German news outlet Der Spiegel writes that the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) of Germany and the Federal Prosecutor's Office have revealed a second possible suspect in the case of the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili.
Slovakia will expel three personnel of the Russian embassy in Bratislava for their connection to the killing of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin, Germany last year, BBC has cited the Slovak media outlets as saying.
Investigative journalism website Bellingcat announced today that ‘the suspected accomplice’ in the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin last August has been identified.
A trial into the high-profile murder case of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili has continued in Berlin.