Chechen emigres in Europe are becoming increasingly apprehensive about their safety following a hammer attack last week by a would-be assassin on a trenchant critic of Chechnya’s Kremlin-backed leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.They say the attack, foiled when popular Chechen blogger Tumso Aburakhmanov confronted his assailant, is part of a violent campaign to silence and intimidate them.In January, a 44-year-old Chechen blogger was stabbed to death in a hotel in the French city of Lille, and a onetime Chechen militant, a citizen of Georgia, was shot dead in Berlin last year. His slaying has been linked by some Western investigative sites to …read more
Source:: Voice of America
