32  Zoo murder

Abstract

Killer in the zoo: how the Kremlin assasin Vadim Krasikov murdered a critique in the zoo of Berlin and was huged by Putin

Myth

Russia was not involved in the murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin

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Truth
  • The Kremlin commissioned the murder.
  • The Kremlin payed Krasikov’s lawyer.
  • Russia exchanged multiple people from russian prisons to release the convicted FSB murder Vadim Krasikov.
  • Putin hugged Krasikov when he arrived in Moscow.

32.1 2019 August - Murder

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was murdered by Vadim Krasikov in Berlin Tiergarten. Krasikkov travelled under false name “Sokolov”, see wikipedia: Khangoshvili Assassination

32.2 2019 December - Assassin

Bellingcat identified that Vadim “Sokolov” is in fact the FSB agent Vadim Krasikov.

German Newspaper Der Spiegel reports about the secret Russian death squad.

32.3 2021 December - Verdict

Krasikov is convicted to life in prison.

Statement of Bellingcat with reference to the verdict

The Federal Foreign Office of Germany expells another two russian “diplomats”

32.4 2024 Juni - Money

Russia paid a celebrity lawyer for Russian contract killer in Berlin

32.5 2024 August - Exchange

Krasikov is exchanged freed from Germany in russian prisoner swap

Putin receives FSB murderer Krasikov with a hug on his arrival in Moscow

32.6 2024 September - State terrorism

German court finds russia committed an act of state terrorism in the tiergarten murder