Berlin Chechen shooting: Russian assassination suspected

12:07, 28.08.2019

A Chechen exile shot dead in a Berlin Park had fought against Russian troops and may have been assassinated by a Russian agent, as reported by BBC.

German police arrested a 49-year-old Russian man soon after the shooting on Friday, and found the suspected pistol and bike used in the attack.

The victim was Zelimkhan Khangoshvili and he had long been a target.

Witnesses quoted in German media said the killer approached Khangoshvili, aged 40, from behind on a bicycle and shot him twice in the head, then sped off.

The attack took place in the Kleiner Tiergarten Park in Moabit, central Berlin, just before midday on 23 August.

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