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'Murdered' Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turns up alive
A Russian journalist and critic of the Kremlin, reported to have been shot dead in Ukraine, showed up alive at a press conference on Wednesday to declare that his murder was faked by Ukrainian security services in an effort to foil an assassination plot against him.
In a stunning development, Arkady Babchenko, 41, walked into a room of journalists in Kiev who had been expecting to get an update on his murder.
He apologized to his wife Olechka -- who on Tuesday was reported to have found him bleeding to death at his apartment -- for the "hell" she had gone through. Ukrainian officials offered a jaw-dropping explanation for his so-called death -- to expose a Russian plot against him.
Script flipped.
Also at BBC.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday May 31 2018, @02:34PM
There are a number of ways in which it may make sense.
One of them:
- they arrested the hitman just before the job, with the journo acting as bait
- they wanted to arrest the instigator but also wanted evidence that he was the correct person, so...
- ... they faked the murder (with the hitman in custody)...
- ... when the rest of the payment for the job came into hitman's account, they traced the source of it, maybe matched with a CCTV at the bank at the moment of transfer.
Yes, making public the murder fakery doesn't necessary help the would-be victim for the future, but maybe doing so secured the testimony of the hitman - no longer accused of murder (only of an attempted one) he may be more pliable to cooperation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford