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> Sure, it's not like Russia or the CCP and you're not in danger of being suicided if you uncover some high level dirt Gustl Mollath [0] would probably disagre

> Sure, it's not like Russia or the CCP and you're not in danger of being suicided if you uncover some high level dirt Gustl Mollath [0] would probably disagree with that notion, just like the death of Jürgen Möllemann [1] left more questions unanswered than a proper investigation of him would very likely have answered. Similar situation with Wolfgang Hüllen during the CDU donations scandal. Similarly the NSU process saw a lot of witnesses die under rather weird circumstances [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl_Mollath https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustl_Mollath [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_M%C3%B6llemann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrgen_M%C3%B6llemann [2]https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aktuelle-stunde/startseite/nsu-prozess-zeugen-sterben-100.html https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aktuelle-stunde/startseite/nsu...

FabHK 6y ago
Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned and received EUR 670k compensation for that. Mölleman‘s death was suicide (the accomplished parachuter jumped out of a plane less than half an hour after his parliamentary immunity was revoked, opened the main chute, cut it, and didn’t open the reserve, (and the automatic reserve deployment was disabled)). Seriously, it’s not Russia.
- freeflight 6y ago
  > Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned He wasn't imprisoned, they sent him to the asylum for 8 years because claiming German banks could do criminal things is just such crazy of a thing to do. Which has quite some similarities to what happened to Hessian tax investigators [0] that were too successful for their own good: Using psychiatric assessments to discredit people who blow the whistle on corruption. In that context it's quite cynical how nearly every high-profile suicide in Russia is framed as some kind of political hit-job ordered straight by the government, while in other countries people are looking for any reason to deny the existence of foul play. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re
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FabHK 6y ago

Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned and received EUR 670k compensation for that. Mölleman‘s death was suicide (the accomplished parachuter jumped out of a plane less than half an hour after his parliamentary immunity was revoked, opened the main chute, cut it, and didn’t open the reserve, (and the automatic reserve deployment was disabled)). Seriously, it’s not Russia.

freeflight 6y ago
> Mollath wasn’t killed: he was falsely imprisoned He wasn't imprisoned, they sent him to the asylum for 8 years because claiming German banks could do criminal things is just such crazy of a thing to do. Which has quite some similarities to what happened to Hessian tax investigators [0] that were too successful for their own good: Using psychiatric assessments to discredit people who blow the whistle on corruption. In that context it's quite cynical how nearly every high-profile suicide in Russia is framed as some kind of political hit-job ordered straight by the government, while in other countries people are looking for any reason to deny the existence of foul play. [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steuerfahnder-Aff%C3%A4re
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