Police faked the killing of a rabbi in an elaborate sting operation to catch members of an antisemitic gang, a Russian court has heard.
According to a trial taking place in the southern Krasnodar region, reported in the Times, police infiltrated a Citizens of the USSR, a Jew-hating cult which believes the Soviet Union still exists.
An undercover policeman was said to have posed as a “hitman” who was hired to murder a rabbi by the two suspected gang members on trial.
Yury Tkach, 52, the rabbi, agreed to take part in the fake operation after being informed by police. A make-up artist splashed him with fake blood and pictures were taken of him slumped in the stairwell of his apartment block.
