On the sidewalk in front of the embassy building: Russian diplomat found dead in Berlin – Berlin
An unexplained death occurred at the Russian embassy in Berlin. As the “Spiegel” reports, property protectors of the Berlin police are said to have discovered a lifeless body on the sidewalk in front of an embassy building in Berlin on Tuesday, October 19, around 7:20 a.m. Resuscitation attempts by rescue workers who were called were therefore unsuccessful.
Apparently the man fell from an upper floor of the embassy complex on Behrenstrasse in the Mitte district.
According to a list of diplomats, the 35-year-old has been accredited as the second embassy secretary in Berlin since the summer of 2019, the report continues. The German security authorities, however, considered him an employee of the Russian domestic secret service FSB. He is also said to have been related to a senior official in the second directorate of the FSB.
In Russia, the department is responsible for counterterrorism, among other things, and is linked by Western intelligence services to the so-called Tiergarten Murder, in which a Georgian exile was shot in Berlin in the summer of 2019.
She is also said to be behind the attack on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned with a chemical from the Novichok group on a domestic flight in August last year. Navalny was then treated for weeks in the Berlin Charité. The Kremlin rejects the allegation.
The embassy did not agree with the “Spiegel” report in the case of the found diplomat an autopsy of the corpse. From security circles it was said that the case of the alleged fall and the cause of death are “unknown”. So it was also unclear whether there was evidence of third-party negligence.
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The death was confirmed to the Tagesspiegel from Berlin’s judicial circles. However, because the deceased had diplomatic status, the public prosecutor was unable to initiate a death investigation.
In the meantime, the diplomat’s body is said to have been transferred to Russia, reports Der Spiegel. At the request of the magazine, the Russian embassy spoke of a “tragic accident” that was not commented on for “ethical reasons”. (TL)