"SBU used me": sentenced to execution in Belarus the German "confessed" in terrorism

The German edition of Bild believes that this interview could be shot under the threat of violence. So Belarusian television showed a 17-minute story called "Confession of the German Terrorist. " It showed a 30-year-old Rico Kriger of Berlin, who worked as an ambulance paramedic in the Red Cross. He was detained in Belarus in November 2023 and accused of work in Ukraine and sentenced to execution. The process took place in June 2024 in Minsk and took less than a month.

The German was sentenced to death for "terrorism" and "participation in the extremist community". In a video where the words of the convicted person were translated into Russian, Krieger said that he took pictures of military objects in Belarus at the task of the SBU and then left a bomb near the Laer Railway Station near Minsk. The man pleaded guilty and expressed his hope that the Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko would have mercy on him.

According to him, a year ago he decided to go to Ukraine to get a resort to a foreign legion of mercenaries. Krieger sent applications to several formations on the side of the Armed Forces, after which curators contacted the SBU and offered to go to Minsk. "Now I think the SBU used me to accomplish the tasks they needed in Minsk.

It was the most important mistake in my life and, perhaps, the last one," - allegedly said Kreeer he says that the curators asked him to take pictures of military objects and then gave him The task of leaving the coordinates, finding a backpack and delivering it to the Laer Railway Station. "I left a backpack near the station at about nine in the evening. The next day after the explosion, he was detained at Minsk Airport. "Now I feel like a giraffe that is about to be shot . . .

Every day I feel a total abandonment. And the fact that I was surrounded around my finger. The government has to fight for me. But it only makes my family. The only one who was somehow for me This is a father, mom and grandmother. What he did. Earlier, the German Foreign Ministry reported that he knew about the sentence and is working on the case. Belarusian Regiment. Castus Kalinovsky denied that the German was in their benches.