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The spy who saw Putin as an "icon"

2021-08-25T15:45:34.356Z


STORY - Employed by the British Embassy in Berlin, David Smith allegedly passed on information to Russia.


The pictures, taken hastily through an apartment window, have the value of documents.

Teleworking this August afternoon, Martina hears the commotion in the quiet residence of pastel yellow and cubic buildings on the grass, when she draws her laptop.

Photos posted on social media show a man in profile in a blue polo shirt, of medium height, surrounded by masked police officers.

Bald head and rounded belly, he is handcuffed before boarding an unmarked criminal police van.

Without knowing it yet, she has just witnessed the arrest of a suspected spy.

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David Smith is a local employee of the UK Embassy in the German capital.

Aged 57, he was imprisoned in an undisclosed location and subjected to questioning before being transferred to England.

A joint investigation by the federal police and the Metropolitan Police allowed to unmask this banal neighbor, tenant of a two-room apartment and circulating

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Source: lefigaro

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