2024-07-11 16:12:56
Published11. July 2024, 18:12
Armament giantRussia planned to kill the CEO of Rheinmetall
According to US intelligence, Putin’s old associates planned to assassinate several executives from the European defense industry. Such an assassination attempt on Armin Papperger could now be prevented.
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Russia apparently planned to kill several defense company CEOs.
German security services prevented an assassination attempt on the head of Rheinmetall.
There has also been a recent increase in acts of sabotage, which Russia is likely to be behind.
While the troops of Moscow and Kiev continue to fight each other in Ukraine, the war is also continuing elsewhere: European secret services have recently reiterated their warnings about acts of sabotage by Russia, and spies working for the Kremlin in Switzerland several times. But Putin is not shy about eliminating well-known faces in the European economy to achieve his goals.
As CNN reports, in the spring of 2024, US intelligence agencies uncovered Russian government plans to assassinate several European defense industry executives. The plan to assassinate Armin Papperger, CEO of German arms giant Rheinmetall, was already well underway.
The security services thwarted the assassination attempt
The United States secret services then informed their professional counterparts in Germany of the planned assassination. The German security services managed to prevent the assassination attempt. A high-ranking German government official confirmed to the broadcaster that the US had informed them of the assassination plans.
Papperger is an attractive target for Putin for several reasons: Not only does his company produce weapons for numerous Western countries, the 61-year-old has favored comprehensive support for Ukraine since the beginning of the war. Rheinmetall will open a factory for armored vehicles in Ukraine in the coming weeks; the company’s other production facilities are already open in the country.
That’s how big the danger is, according to NATO
The fact that Putin planned to assassinate the CEO of Europe’s largest defense company shows that the Russian president fears that there will be no means to advance his almost-stopped invasion. NATO’s warnings are serious: “We see sabotage, we see assassination plans, we see arson. We see things that protect human life,” said a representative of the defense alliance on Tuesday.
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