Russia ordered the killing in broad daylight in a Berlin park of a former Chechen militant, a German court found on Wednesday, sentencing the agent who carried out the 2019 act of 'state terrorism' to life imprisonment.
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The finding could pile pressure on a German government barely a week in office to take a firmer stance towards Moscow amid warnings that Russia could be contemplating military action against Ukraine."In June 2019 at the latest, state organs of the government of the Russian Federation took the decision to liquidate Tornike Khangoshvili in Berlin," Arnoldi said, adding that Russia had issued Krasikov with false papers with which to travel for the killing.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2019 described Khangashvili as a "bloody terrorist", charging him with crimes including a 2004 bombing of the Moscow metro in which 10 people died. Krasikov had flown to Paris several days before the hit, equipped with a false passport and thousands of euros in cash, and from there journeyed to Berlin.
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