'A killer in the service of the Kremlin' Will Russia's assassin be exchanged? | DW Analysis

Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Georgian national and ethnic Chechen, who had once fought against Russia in the Second Chechen War, was shot dead in broad daylight with three bullets to the head and back in Berlin's Tiergarten Park. The killer, Russian intelligence agent Vadim Krasikov, was arrested at the scene and sentenced to life imprisonment two years later.

Now police officers, judges and politicians in Germany are surprised by talks of a possible exchange of the Russian killer Krasikov for Americans arrested in Russia.