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Amira T. was just coming home from vocational school around 11.50 a.m. when her father was standing in the hallway and getting ready to leave the apartment in Berlin-Moabit.
"He asked how it was at school and that he was going to the mosque, but still had something to do," the witness recalls.
It was Friday, August 23, 2019, and Selimchan Changoshvili wanted to pray for Friday at 1 p.m.
The 18-year-old answered the questions of the presiding judge Olaf Arnoldi in the Moabit Criminal Court in a low, barely understandable voice in Russian.
She and her father talked for two or three minutes while he tied his shoes - and finally said goodbye.
It should be the last time that Amira T. saw her father alive.
Run straight to death
Around 6 p.m., Amira T. learned from her father's partner that a Chechen had been murdered in the Kleiner Tiergarten at around 12 p.m.
She found out about this on Facebook, from whom or from which portal, she doesn't remember.
The partner then ran to the crime scene.
“It wasn't far away.
And then she came back and said it was my father. "
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The Chechen with a Georgian passport ran straight to his death from his apartment on Lübecker Weg at around 12 noon.
A man on a bicycle had approached him in the nearby park.
The alleged perpetrator is said to have fired three shots with a silencer, two of them in the head of the 40-year-old.
Witnesses had described a type of execution at the trial.
The suspect, who initially escaped on a bicycle, was caught a little later on the banks of the Spree.
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The so-called Tiergarten murder is not a simple murder.
The process, for which 24 days of negotiation are scheduled, is nothing less than the allegation of state terrorism.
The man killed is said to have fought against the Russian Federation in the second Chechen war, the case is highly political.
And so it is in the negotiations for further details.
Did the murdered man have an appointment that he wanted to go to before going to the mosque?
In fact, Changoshvili did not take the shortest route to the mosque in the north, but, according to the police, in the other direction to the Kleiner Tiergarten.
The judge wants to know whether his daughter has noticed.
Amira T. shakes her head.
She herself had never been to the mosque, had not seen where the father had gone: "He still had an hour until the Friday prayer at 1 p.m."
Defendant's questionable identity
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According to earlier statements by the criminal police, Changoshvili intended to meet the wife of Georgian ex-president Mikhail Saakashvili that day.
His daughter said he had previously mentioned that there should be visitors from abroad, from Georgia.
But she didn't know names.
A man named "Arthur" often visited her father and his partner.
The victim was shot dead near a park café in the middle of the day.
Witnesses apparently did not deter the perpetrator
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The judges of the second criminal division of the higher court on Tuesday cannot elicit much more background from her.
Amira T. leaves the stand and goes to her relatives in the hall, because she is not only a witness but also a joint plaintiff in the trial.
One in eight.
The alleged perpetrator sits across from them.
The Russian Vadim Krasikov is accused of treachery or greed and is following the day of the trial in the high-security room 700 of the Berlin Regional Court behind bulletproof glass.
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Krasikov, who can be seen in earlier police photos with a bald head and three-day beard, now wears dark, short hair.
The face is covered by a white mouth and nose protection.
The 55-year-old is said to have been traveling with a professionally issued cover identity.
He himself claims his name is Vadim Sokolov, 50 years old and a civil engineer.
Spy in Ukraine
According to the indictment of the Attorney General, Krasikov is said to have received the murder order from state agencies of the central government of the Russian Federation.
The investigation threads lead via Paris and Warsaw to Moscow, Saint Petersburg and the Russian secret service FSB.
Photos from surveillance cameras, which are supposed to show the accused in airports and hotels on their way to Berlin, are used to take evidence.
According to the latest research by WELT AM SONNTAG, the victim Changoshvili was on a death list of Russian President Vladimir Putin along with 18 other men.
The aim is therefore a campaign of revenge against Chechen opponents in exile.
In addition to Berlin, the crime scenes in recent years have been Istanbul and Kiev.
Changoshvili, murdered in Berlin, was a determined opponent of Putin's Russia.
He survived an attack in Tbilisi in 2015 and fled to Germany in 2016.
Here he applied for asylum.
The local security authorities had known his name for years - and possibly also his threat situation.
There are many indications that the murder was an act of revenge by the Russian state on a man whom Putin himself has declared a terrorist.
Who got the murder weapon?
The Berlin Superior Court now has to decide on a murder case that is likely to have a significant impact on German-Russian relations.
It is excluded that the accused acted alone.
But it is still questionable who spied Changoshvili.
And also who got Krasikov the murder weapon and prepared the bike and the e-scooter.
The role of previously unknown third parties is to be determined in a separate procedure.
The judges' verdict is expected in a few weeks.
The federal government had linked reactions directly to the outcome of these proceedings, after all, a political opponent is said to have been murdered on German soil.