So Unit 29155 has now been linked to three attempted assassination attempts using nerve agents, 5 warehouse explosions and one fire to cover up their involvement in the explosions, all in EU counties. Seems like it's time for a serious EU wide inquiry into Russian spy activity.
This doesn't even include things like the Berlin bicycle assassination, or the attempted coup in Montenegro, and all the other stuff we don't know about.
There's also many other trips to locations across Europe that have involved Unit 29155 members where we still don't know why they were there. It's clear they're involved in everything from coups to assassinations, so I think it's fair to assume the worse.
This isn't some minor issue that can be ignored, it's a decade of assassinations, coup attempts and sabotage that has killed European citizens and have involved nerve agents being used on European soil.
Will it take a GRU officer dropping a bottle of nerve agent on a European high street for there to be any serious action? Or do MEPs and European states think there's an acceptable level of assassinations, explosions and coup attempts in Europe?
What is the price in blood our leaders are willing to pay to play nice with Russia? Because it certainly seems to be more than zero, so it would be nice to know how many people have to die.
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Bellingcat was the first to reveal the involvement of the FSB in both these case. The Berlin assassination case is currently in court, where Bellingcat has provided evidence of the FSB's involvement. We'll hopefully hear the result of that case next month.
The methodology used to prove the FSB's involvement in the Berlin case was the same as we've used in exposing other Russian assassination attempts, so obviously significant if a German court accepts that as evidence.
This is probably why the Russian state and media are now spinning us as terrorist sympathisers, because they know they'll lose and have to think up some new attack against Bellingcat. We've plenty more of their assassinations left to publish about, they've been busy boys.
The OPCW IIT has concluded its investigation in to the 2018 Saraqib chlorine attack, which we investigated back in February 2018 with @STJ_SYRIA_ENG. The OPCW IIT has concluded this is yet another chemical attack by the Syrian Air Force.
The OPCW IIT report is not public yet, but in the Bellingcat + STJ investigation we identified a number of details, such as the impact site of the munitions used, in a field in between buildings in Saraqib.
Photographs of the munitions used clearly show they're the same sort of yellow chlorine cylinders used in many other chlorine attacks in Syria.
For this project I closely examined hundreds of videos from the Inaugural entrance as the first crowds arrived, piecing them together into a timeline, that showed how the anger at the police grew through the day.
While early on there were some scuffles with the police two factors seem to have really turned the crowd against the police. The first was when the police started using crowd control munitions against the crowd, this video at 1:34pm being good example.
This video from 1:25pm gives a good sense of how the crowd reacted when the police started using crowd control munitions against them. They were furious and felt betrayed projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol…
How to mainstream delusional thinking - Fox News host Tucker Carlson calls QAnon followers 'gentle' patriots theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
This slow creep of insane conspiracy theories being accepted by an increasing number of the US right is a fundamental threat to democratic societies.
Engaging with conspiracy theorists who see everyone outside of their community as either dupes or part of the conspiracy is extremely dangerous, especially when that conspiracy claims the political opposition are a cult of Satanic paedophiles.
New investigation from @Bellingcat shows how influencers use services that provide monkeys, tigers, lions and cheetahs that they pose with in their Instagram posts that can be tracked to a shady network involved in the wildlife trade bellingcat.com/news/mena/2021…
Our researchers were able to track multiple animals that appeared in different influencers' videos and photographs by using the pattern on the animals' fur.
Helpfully, the users who shared the photographs and videos of the animals on Instagram tagged the same account, the mysterious mbe.777