Berlin expels Russian diplomats after court rules Moscow ordered dissident’s murder
by Philip Oltermann in Berlin from on (#5T2GS)
Decision follows court ruling that Russia was behind 2019 murder of Chechen dissident in German capital
Germany has expelled two Russian diplomats and accused the Kremlin of infringing on its sovereignty after a German court ruled on Wednesday that the 2019 murder of a Chechen dissident in Berlin took place at the behest of the Russian authorities.
Zelimkhan Tornike" Khangoshvili, 40, a Georgian citizen who fought against Russia during the second Chechen war in the early 2000s, was shot twice in the head at close range in the Kleiner Tiergarten, a park in central Berlin, in August 2019.
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