Moscow denies link with murder of Chechen war veteran, Georgian citizen in Germany
Veteran of the Second Chechen War (1999-2009) Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, was shot on August 23 in Berlin. Photo: Facebook.
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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.”
Kremlin Press Speaker Peskov says Russia is not linked with Khangoshvili's murder. Photo: Euronews.
On August 26, German police arrested a 49-year-old Russian national as a suspect in the murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was a field commander during the second Chechen War (1999-2009), which is why he was wanted and continuously persecuted by Russian police.
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was buried in the village of Pankisi today. Photo: Radio Liberty.
Khangoshvili was also involved in the notorious Lapankuri special operation in the Lopota gorge, near the Georgia-Russia border in August 2012.
He was shot in May 2018 and underwent surgery in Tbilisi, Georgia. Afterwards, he left Georgia and spent the past few years in Berlin, Germany.
Russia denies ordering assassination of Chechen exile in Berlin https://t.co/Zl68lWmlaW
— The Guardian (@guardian) August 28, 2019
German media outlet Der Spiegel reported the murder was ‘well-planned and ordered.’
The body of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was transferred from Germany to Georgia in the early morning today. He was buried today after a funeral in the village of Duisi, Pankisi Gorge, Georgia.
German police have arrested a Russian national, 49, who faces charges for the murder of Georgian citizen, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of Georgia’s Pankisi Gorge by origin. Veteran of the Second Chechen War (1999-2009) Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, 40, was shot on August 23 in Berlin was on his way to Friday prayers.
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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.
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.
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.’
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.
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.