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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 10:09 AM Apr 2021

Putin critic's murder made to look like suicide, inquest finds

A Russian dissident was murdered in his own home and his death made to look like suicide, a coroner has ruled. Nikolai Glushkov, a close friend of the deceased oligarch Boris Berezovsky, Mr Putin's one-time fiercest rival, was found dead in the hall of his property in New Malden, south-west London ...

Paramedics who arrived at Glushkov's home on March 12 2018 immediately raised concerns that he had been killed because of the way suicide paraphernalia appeared to be deliberately placed around the body.

A post-mortem examination concluded he died at the hands of a third party, due to compression of the neck". The pathology report read to the court said the injuries "could be consistent with a neck-hold, applied from behind, and the assailant being behind the victim.

A police report said the findings indicated "a staged scene was set up to simulate a case of suicidal hanging". Chinyere Inyama, senior coroner for west London, said: "From all the documentation, all the evidence gathered, Nikolai Glushkov died from an unlawful killing."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nikolai-glushkov-putin-critics-murder-221149011.html

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Putin critic's murder made to look like suicide, inquest finds (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Apr 2021 OP
This is what Drumpf loves about dictators. SergeStorms Apr 2021 #1
Dictators must have oppressed and frightened people to dictate to. Hortensis Apr 2021 #2
I thought Putin would have more competent assassins working for him. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #3
They are historically sloppy on purpose... Hugin Apr 2021 #5
Yeah. I wondered about that, but decided to just leave the post as it was. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #9
Biden was right... bahboo Apr 2021 #4
This terrifies me. I think Putin and Trump still have a plan. SleeplessinSoCal Apr 2021 #6
Sounds like a waste of time to fake a suicide scene... lame54 Apr 2021 #7
But Putin gets sensitive when he's called a killer Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 2021 #8

SergeStorms

(19,204 posts)
1. This is what Drumpf loves about dictators.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:07 PM
Apr 2021

Oh, how he would have loved to have total, unimpeded power. That's what he was pushing for, but Joe and Kamala got in his way. Rest assured, republicans want this type of power, and if we ever allowed them to have it they'd be just as bad, or worse, that their hero, Vlad Putin.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. Dictators must have oppressed and frightened people to dictate to.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:27 PM
Apr 2021

And of course they're poor compared to western democracies.

I wish those who admire him and Putin could look beyond their shining heroes to their and their loved ones' roles under that "greatness." These people suffer from severe lack of insight.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,564 posts)
3. I thought Putin would have more competent assassins working for him.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:33 PM
Apr 2021

FML, what a horrible man. I sure hope he doesn't catch some nasty disease, and is careful on stairs.

Hugin

(33,198 posts)
5. They are historically sloppy on purpose...
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:41 PM
Apr 2021

The message to others goes beyond the act.

They know the actual perps are unlikely to get caught or charged.

SleeplessinSoCal

(9,145 posts)
6. This terrifies me. I think Putin and Trump still have a plan.
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 12:53 PM
Apr 2021

And the GOP is in on it. Their new found way back to power is to end democracy and rule by force. They have their own allies. Not even remotely like those of the Unied States of America.

I hope our intelligence is aware and have spies in his secret service. And that the spies have spies.

lame54

(35,321 posts)
7. Sounds like a waste of time to fake a suicide scene...
Sat Apr 10, 2021, 01:11 PM
Apr 2021

Now that they know it's murder still nothing will happen

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