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The blogger who hit back against a hammer-wielding Russian 'assassin'
17 June 2020
TUMSO ABDURAKHMANOV
Sergei Skripal was poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, Alexander Litvinenko was killed with radioactive polonium… by contrast the man who attacked Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov was armed with nothing more than a hammer. But he is still convinced that Russian security services were involved, reports Nick Sturdee.
It's 26 February 2020. A half-naked man is catching his breath, filming himself in the half light. He's just grabbed the phone and is streaming live on Instagram. He switches from selfie mode and we see a second man, fully dressed, lying face down next to a bed. From his head, a half-metre trail of thick blood, pasted along a linoleum floor across which he has apparently been dragged.
"Who sent you?" demands the man who is filming. "Who sent you?!" he repeats, raising his voice.
His name is Tumso Abdurakhmanov, and he's a Chechen blogger living in hiding in the town of Gavle, in eastern Sweden.
He's holding a hammer, and anxiously looks over his shoulder - clearly concerned there might be someone else in the flat.
More:
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53066537
