Former first lady of Georgia Roelofs named witness in Khangoshvili Berlin murder case
Deutsche Welle reports that Roelofs was in Berlin the day Khangoshvili was murdered and was planning to meet him. Photo: Sandra Roelofs/Facebook.
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Sandra Roelofs, the wife of former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, has been named a witness in the case of the assassination of Georgian citizen of Chechen origin Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin on August 23, 2019, reports the Russian edition of German media outlet Deutsche Welle.
Deutsche Welle reports that Roelofs was in Berlin the day Khangoshvili was murdered and was planning to meet him.
Roelofs was unable to come to Germany to speak with German investigators, and so she was questioned over the phone, however neither the content of the conversation nor the reason for the meeting with Khangoshvili was voiced in court.
Saakashvili has also been asked about Roelofs's connection with the Khangoshvili case and he said he knows nothing about it.
A veteran of the Second Chechen War (1999-2009), Khangoshvili, 40, was shot on August 23, 2019 in Berlin on his way to Friday prayers.
He was a field commander during the war, which is why he was wanted and continuously persecuted by Russian police.
German police later arrested a Russian national, 49, for the murder of Khangoshvili.
In June 2020 German news outlet Der Spiegel wrote that the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) of Germany and the Federal Prosecutor's Office had revealed a second possible suspect in the case of the assassination of Khangoshvili.
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Khangoshvili was a ‘terrorist’.