In Sweden, the Chechen government opponent Tumso Abdurachmanov (36) has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Was he murdered? The government-critical Chechen medium “1Adat” writes on its Telegram channel, citing a “network of informants from Europe and Chechnya”, that it has “enough information” to confirm that the 36-year-old blogger was shot on Monday night. death by a group of people”. His brother Muhammad Abdurachmanov, who worked with him, was hidden by security services.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov fled Chechnya in 2015. In 2021 he was granted refugee status in Sweden. It is unclear where the alleged attack on him took place. The Swedish police, at the request of the newspaper Aftonbladet, cannot confirm the information about his disappearance. A spokeswoman declined to comment further on the matter.
Hammer attack in 2020
In February 2020, Tumso Abdurachmanow was the target of a hammer attack at his home in Gävle, Sweden. However, he managed to overpower the attacker. The man – a Chechen and Russian citizen – was later sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted murder. An accomplice was sentenced to a year and a half in prison for complicity. As Abdurakhmanov explained in March 2021, his brother had also narrowly escaped an assassination attempt. According to the information, the crime was planned in Germany.
On the Internet, Abdurachmanov, apparently under the name of Abu-Saddam Shishani, sharply criticized the situation in the Russian Republic of Chechnya and President Ramzan Kadyrov (46), a loyal follower of Russian President Vladimir Putin (70), also known as nicknamed “Putin’s bloodhound”. The blogger accused Kadyrov of serious human rights violations such as kidnapping, torture and extrajudicial killings.
Memoirs of the murder of Tiergarten
According to Abdurakhmanov, he left Chechnya after a conflict with a relative of Kadyrov. In 2019, the head of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov (42), allegedly swore a blood feud against Tumso Abdurachmanov. This was denied by the Chechen side. In Chechnya, according to a report by the Russian news portal “Meduza”, which operates from exile, the blogger is said to have ties to the terrorist organization Islamic State (IS).
In recent years, several attacks have been carried out on opponents of Kadyrov abroad, for example in Qatar, Dubai and Austria. The suspected murder is also reminiscent of the so-called Tiergarten murder in August 2019 in the German capital Berlin. At the time, the victim was a Georgian who belonged to the Chechen minority in his home country. The German detectives blamed the Russian secret service FSB as the client. Russia described the allegations as politically motivated.