“It was a tragic accident for which, for ethical reasons, we will not provide further details,” Spiegel was quoted as saying by a Russian diplomatic mission in Germany.
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According to the newspaper, a member of the Berlin police guarding a diplomatic facility found a limp body on the sidewalk in front of the embassy on October 19 after seven o’clock in the morning. Rescue attempts by the emergency services were unsuccessful.
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The Russians refused to perform an autopsy on an unnamed secretary of their embassy, and the cause of his death is unknown.
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Yes, we know about it
A spokesman for the German Foreign Ministry admitted at a regular press conference on Friday that the federal authorities knew about the death of an employee of the Russian embassy, but could not provide any further information.
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The dead man was reportedly related to a senior officer of the FSB’s second division. In Russia, the department is responsible for, among other things, the fight against terrorism, and Western intelligence links it to the assassination of Chechen Zelimchan Changoshvili in Berlin’s Tiergarten park two years ago. According to investigative journalists, the agents of this unit were also involved in the poisoning of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny last summer.
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