Germany hunts down Russian spies

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France 2

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L.Desbonnets, B.Boussouar J.Méchaussie, M.Werth – France 2

France Televisions

It’s a spy story that caused a scandal in Germany. The football coach of the junior team of a small town in Bavaria was in fact a double agent in the service of Russia.

In a small town in Bavaria, a man was known as a colonel in the German army and coach of the local youth football team. Few knew he worked for the services German intelligence. No one imagined that he would be suspected today of being a double agent, a spy in the service of Russia, imprisoned for two months. He was previously known to be in charge of electronic intelligence.

400,000 euros found in a safe

He had access to the GPS positioning of several weapons in Ukraine, such as rocket launchers delivered by the Eunited states. It is this kind of ultra-sensitive data that the Russians would have asked him. 400,000 euros were found in a safe belonging to him. It is an accomplice, arrested meanwhile by the FBI in Miami (United States), who would have sent the secret information to Russia. The German spy is being investigated for high treason and faces life in prison.


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