In Berlin
Two years after the attempted poisoning in England of a former Russian intelligence agent, the Kremlin is once again facing charges of murder committed in an EU country. On Thursday, the German federal prosecution officially accused the authorities of the central government of the Russian Federation of "ordering the liquidation" of Tornike Kavtarashvili, a Georgian citizen from the Chechen minority.
The assassination occurred on August 23, 2019 in the famous park in central Berlin, the Tiergarten. A veteran of the Russian-Chechen war, the victim, who had been hunted down for years by the Russian services, had failed to obtain police protection in Berlin. The accused, a killer named Vadim Krasikov, was reportedly recruited by the FSB to eliminate him. This murder becomes a state affair. Relations between Moscow and Berlin are at an all-time low, as Germany prepares to assume the rotating presidency of
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