Two Russian diplomats will be expelled from Germany due to the murder of a Georgian citizen in Berlin

Two Russian diplomats will be expelled from Germany due to the murder of Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin. This was reported by the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Thus, the German government is responding to the fact that, despite numerous requests, the Russian authorities did not properly participate in the investigation into the murder.

magazine At the same time , Spiegel Online calls the expelled diplomats “intelligence agents.” Russians must leave the country within seven days.

Earlier today, the German Prosecutor General's Office announced that there are substantial grounds to believe that Khangoshvili's murder was committed "either on behalf of the state authorities of the Russian Federation, or on behalf of the authorities of Chechnya, which is part of the Russian Federation."

The department also reports that Vadim K., who was arrested in the murder case, was wanted in connection with a murder in Moscow in June 2013. In 2015, he was removed from the database of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Interpol. about this the day before wrote The Insider . According to the publication, his name was Vadim Krasikov.

After the murder of Khangoshvili, a passport in the name of Vadim Sokolov was found on the arrested person . At the same time, according to the German prosecutor's office, the Russian authorities confirmed the authenticity of the document.

Georgian citizen Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was shot dead at the end of August in a park in Berlin. The killer approached the victim on a bicycle. According to the German Prosecutor General's Office, the murdered man fought on the side of the Chechen separatists in the second Russian-Chechen war.