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5 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Bellingcat has identified the individual who fell from a window of the Russian Embassy in Berlin & died as the son of FSB's Director of the Directorate for Protection of Constitutional Order, the same FSB squad that follows and poisons Russian dissidents.
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German intelligence sources told Der Spiegel that they suspected the diplomat, who served as a second secretary at the embassy, was in fact an undercover FSB officer and was related to a high-ranking FSB general. spiegel.de/politik/deutsc…
Car and address registration data from leaked Cronos databases freely available on the internet shows that the diplomat was registered at the same address as the general both in Moscow and, previously, in Rostov where the family hails from.
Google cached and current data shows that the second secretary of the Russian embassy was removed from the diplomatic list of the German Foreign Ministry at some point between 1 November and 4 November 2021.
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As previously reported by Bellingcat and its partners, the FSB’s Second Service has been linked to the assassination of Georgian asylum seeker and former Chechen rebel commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin’s Kleiner Tiergarten on 23 August 2019.
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The deceased diplomat’s father also directly oversees the Directorate for Protection of the Constitutional Order. Officers from this Directorate were part of the FSB squad that tailed Alexey Navalny prior to his poisoning in August 2020 bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-eu…
The same squad could also be linked to the suspected poisoning of other opposition figures including Boris Nemstov ally Vladimir Kara-Murza.
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