Germany Says Russian Officials Ordered Berlin Park Killing
- Russian ‘state entities’ gave order, prosecutor says
- Charge likely to escalate tensions between Berlin and Moscow
Forensic officers at the crime scene in Berlin, Germany, on Aug. 23, 2019.
Photographer: Christoph Soeder/picture alliance via Getty Images
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Germany’s top prosecutor said Russian officials ordered the killing of a political opponent in a Berlin city park last summer, escalating tensions between the two countries.
“State entities within the central government of the Russian Federation gave the order to the accused to liquidate” the murder victim, an ethnic Chechen Georgian citizen identified as Tornike K., Germany’s Federal Prosecutor said in a statement filing charges against a Russian citizen.