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6 Aug, 9 tweets, 4 min read

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The latest from the Berlin bicycle assassin murder court case, from @christogrozev and @michaeldweiss, with details of a new witness who appeared in court last week newlinesmag.com/reportage/excl…

Bellingcat has ended up playing a significant role in the trial, as evidence gathered as part of our investigation into the assassination became key evidence in the trial. First, a week after the trial we identified the suspect's ID documents were fakes bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

We then eliminated a major false lead to the real identity of the suspect, and identified the state level activity required to create the suspect's fake identity.
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

Next, we revealed the true identity of the assassin, Vadim Nikolaevich Krasikov, and tied him to a 2013 assassination of a Russian businessman. bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

We discovered even more details of his past activities, and presented evidence that connected him to the Russian security services and one of the FSB's elite Spetznaz units.
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

It was also certain at least one, and likely more, individuals travelled to Berlin as part of the operation, all with connections to the FSB, including individuals linked to the assassination of a Chechen national in Istanbul in 2015.
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

We later confirmed one of these individuals was Roman Yuryevich Demyanchenko, a former FSB Spetsnaz officer and current undercover FSB asset working under the cover of the Vympel Group of companies.
bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…

In March of this year we were able to show photographs seized by Ukrainian authorities from the home of his in-laws in Ukraine showed further proof of the real identity of the suspect, confirming our previous work bellingcat.com/news/2021/03/1…

The evidence gathered by Bellingcat has been used in the Berlin trial, and plays a major role in identifying the suspect and connecting him to the Russian intelligence services. A guilty verdict that accepts this evidence would be highly significant, both in Germany and elsewhere

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