The first informed CNN tv on 11 July, citing information from 5 officials from the United States and Western states who knew the case. American intelligenceists in early 2024 detected a game and warned Berlin. German services then provided Papperger with protection and the assassination was thwarted. The weekly “Der Spiegel” wrote that the tricky plan had already entered the implementation phase. Suspects, possibly Russian agents, entered the European Union. any of them were seen close the office of Rheinmetall in Düsseldorf, others were active in the cities to which Armin Papperger was to go. As “Bild” writes, since January, you can see a police car and uniforms armed with device guns. The manager of Rheinmetall is escorted everywhere by North Rhine-Westphalia police officers. He is 1 of the fewer people in this Landa whose state provides protection 24 hours a day. 61-year-old Papperger says that as a consequence of this situation his quality of life has decreased, but he does not intend to quit supporting Kiev.
One of the biggest companies
Rheinmetall is 1 of the world's largest arms companies. In 2023, he employed 34 000 employees and achieved a turnover of EUR 7.2 billion. It provides Ukrainian armed forces with Leopard 1 and Leopard 2 tanks, Marder's caterpillar combat cars, as well as 155 mm caliber ammunition, which plays a key function in this war. In June Armin Papperger reported that his company would grow its cooperation with Kiev and will besides send modern Lynx-type combat vehicles to Ukraine. In the western part of this country, Rheinmetall operates a tank repair plant. In the coming weeks, the company from Düsseldorf intends to launch an armored vehicle mill in Ukraine. It all angers the Kremlian tyrant and his generals.
News of the bombings that putin's servants are preparing has irritated German politicians. Michael Roth“Putin is at war against not only Ukraine, but besides against the countries that support it, as well as against our values.”
CDU opposition politician Roderich Kiesewetter On the Parliament's peculiar Services Committee, he warned that 1 assassination had been thwarted, but Russia had already moved the war to Germany, was spying, sabotaged, committed assassinations. The national government should take vigorous defensive action in this situation.
Rising saboteurs
The leaders of the USA and Germany, as well as interviews of these countries, have not officially commented on the case. U.S. National safety Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson However, she said: “The increasing Russian subversion run is something that we take very seriously and that we have focused on over the last fewer months. The United States discussed this issue with NATO allies. We are actively cooperating to detect and disrupt these activities."
Commentators point out that for months now there have been saboteurs in Western countries who set fires, commit acts of demolition and vandalism. They are local amateurs, criminals, sometimes people with Russian roots, recruited by the Kremel services for mostly a tiny payment. This time, however, the substance has a different dimension. There are many indications that Moscow sent agents to the European Union for the first time to kill a Western citizen, the head of an crucial corporation, as well as directors of another arms companies.
