Zelimkhan Khangoshvili shot dead in Berlin's Kleiner Tiergarten
23 Aug 2019 · Germany · Court finding
Zelimkhan (Tornike) Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen of Chechen ethnicity and former Second Chechen War commander, was shot dead in a Berlin park on 23 August 2019 by a gunman on a bicycle. One person was killed.
Established by. The Berlin Higher Regional Court (Kammergericht) on 15 December 2021 sentenced Russian national Vadim Krasikov (alias 'Vadim Sokolov') to life imprisonment, finding he acted on the orders of Russian central state authorities under a false identity prepared by the Russian state.
Latest. Krasikov was released by Germany in the 1 August 2024 multinational prisoner exchange in Ankara; on 2 August 2024 the Kremlin acknowledged he is an FSB officer.
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