Der Spiegel report failed to check bullet diameter that matches Turkish guns
‘On March 4 at the peak of Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s attempt to asymmetrically invade Greece with illegal immigrants, Muhammad Gulzar, a Pakistani who had previously lived in Greece and was told by his boss Nikolaos Tzokanis to not re-enter illegally, was shot and killed at Evros on the Greek-Turkish border.
Der Spiegel claims the “evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the bullet came from a Greek firearm” and one of its authors, Giorgos Christidis, said that there is “little doubt he was killed by a Greek bullet.”
Greek City Times has already shown major holes in the story pushed by Der Spiegel that Greek forces killed a Pakistani illegal migrant.
We analysed whether testimonies of illegal migrants can be trusted.
1. Bullet size is Turkish
We saw how the majority of weapons that the Greek forces are using in the border region are G3 7.62-millimetre caliber weapons when Der Spiegel says the Pakistani national was killed by a 5.56-millimetre caliber weapon from the autopsy report they saw.
We also found that the majority of weapons used by Turkish soldiers are 5.56 millimetre caliber weapons.
We questioned why Der Spiegel never explored the option that perhaps Turkish soldiers killed the illegal immigrant.
2. The official investigation
We also questioned why the German media company never attempted to contact the European Union border control agency, who were present on the alleged date of killing.
A supposed months long investigation was revealed to have major holes in only a day by Greek City Times. You can read the report here.
3. Turkey’s Minister of the Interior confirms that Turkish shooted immigrants 10 times more
Now Der Spiegel really needs to re-investigate the allegations they made after a major revelation was made by Turkey’s Minister of the Interior, Süleyman Soylu. Soylu said in an interview from March that “we retaliated against Greece ten times more. We had bombarded the other side [Greek troops] with bullets and gas canisters for hours‘.” See full report of distinguished journalist Paul Antonopoulos in greekcitytimes.com.
All this evidence made clear that Der Spiegel Mr Christides ‘report’ is, if not simply fabricated fake news, far from being the best piece of journalism. Mr Christides and Der Spiegel should consider apologising to their readers for poor journalism.
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