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Autopsy Ordered on German MP Who Criticized Russia


A German court has ordered an autopsy on a conservative member of parliament, who was a prominent critic of Russia’s Vladimir Putin, in order to rule out any link between his death and his hardline stance towards the Kremlin, state prosecutors said.

Andreas Schockenhoff, a deputy parliamentary floor leader for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party, died unexpectedly on Saturday at the age of 57.

A former point-man for the German government on relations with Russia, Schockenhoff was an outspoken proponent of tough sanctions against Russia after its annexation of Crimea.

“We don’t know the cause of his death,” Karl-Josef Diehl from the state …read more

Source: Voice of America

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