Last Friday, August 23, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian citizen living in Germany, was assassinated in downtown Berlin while having lunch on the way to a mosque for Friday prayer. Khangoshvili was assassinated with three bullets, two of them shot at close range into his head. The killer, who was hiding in nearby bushes, rushed toward the victim on an electric bike and shot his victim – once in the shoulder and twice in the head – using a 9mm Glock 26 with an attached silencer. After speeding away from the crime-scene for a few hundred meters along the Spree river, the assassin stopped and jettisoned the electric bike, a plastic bag with the murder weapon, and a wig he was using, into the river. It was in doing so that he was observed by two teenagers who alerted the police. Their tips that lead to the killer being caught a few minutes later, just as he was minging into the tourist crowd – now sporting a clean-shaven head, a mustachioed face, a pink t-shirt, and a touristy neck-suspended pouch holding his passport and some cash.
Bellingcat: Suspected assassin in the Berlin killing used fake documents
Picture taken on August 23, 2019 shows police cars parked close to the site of a crime scene in Berlin's Moabit district, where a man was shot dead. German police were investigating on August 25, 2019 the assassination-style killing in a Berlin park of a Georgian man who was reportedly a former special forces commando and Chechnya war veteran. Police have arrested a 49-year-old suspect from Russia's Chechnya republic over the murder of the man media identified only as Zelimkhan K, 41. The killer had approached his victim from behind, as he was on his way to a mosque, shot him twice and fled by bicycle in what one witness described as an "execution" style killing.
