Germany re-opens Uwe Barchel Death Case
2011 Barschel Case Review
On June 12, 2011, the Public Persecution Department of Lübeck announced that the Barschel case will be re-opened and re-examined, with more sophisticated techniques such as DNA profiling being employed to find out the actual circumstances of the politician’s demise.
Here is my previous article:
Mossad accused of 1987 Murder of German Politician Uwe Barschel
On 11 October 1987, Barschel was found dead by two journalists working for the German magazine Stern. His body was fully dressed and lying in a bathtub filled with water in his room, no. 317 at the Hotel Beau-Rivage in Geneva, Switzerland. As of 2010, the cause of his death remains unproven and highly controversial. Among others, the drug Lorazepam was found in his system.
In his book Geheimakte Mossad, former Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky nourishes suspicions that Barschel was killed by an Israeli killer commando, claiming Barschel had too much inside knowledge about an Israeli-Iranian arms deal. In the 1994 book, The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad’s Secret Agenda, Ostrovsky claimed that a team of Israeli assassins had murdered Barschel.
Ostrovsky described how Barschel was lured to Geneva’s Beau Rivage Hotel by a telephone call received in October 1987 in the Canary Islands from a person called Robert Oleff. According to Ostrovsky, Barschel was then ambushed at the hotel by a team of Mossad assassins, who killed him and then forced barbiturates down his throat through a tube.
Ostrovsky’s grim account was confirmed[verification needed] in a January 1995 Washington Post article[citation needed] based on German, Spanish and Swiss police investigations of the murder, and the possible motives for it.
The Post article reported that the Barschel case had been reopened as a murder investigation because of evidence of third-party involvement. Investigators found that the overdose of sedatives found in Barschel’s stomach had been forced down his throat through a tube after he had died.
“Just who the third party who went to such lengths to make a murder look like a suicide might be, is unclear,” Andrew I. Killgore, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, wrote in 1995. Although the Israeli government issued a “formal denial” that it was involved, such a denial, according to Killgore, especially if it is “formal,” is widely accepted in the region as confirmation that the opposite is true.
According to Ostrovsky, Barschel was murdered because he refused to allow Israeli arms for Iran to be shipped from Schleswig-Holstein ports. During the Iran-Iraq war, Israel and the United States secretly armed Iran; the US had interest in doing so both to create an “autonomous” source of unmonitored revenue with which to finance contras and other death squad-type organizations in Central America without hindrances from Congress and to obtain bargaining chips with Hezbollah which at the time had several US hostages in Lebanon. Israel had interest in arming Iran to keep Saddam Hussein busy; Iran had inherited a vast arsenal of US weapons from Reza Palhevi. Israel with its large collection of US weapons was in a prime position to sell HAWK SAMs, M-60 Tank spare parts, F-4 Phantom parts and air-to-air missiles to Teheran.
In addition, the police investigation found indications that another person had been in Barschel’s room at the time of his death. The official autopsy found some traces of force having been applied.
Barschel left behind a wife and four children who are convinced that Barschel was killed.
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