Bizarre story this:
If Vitali Kaloyev killed anyone in Georgia he is not telling. One thing is for sure, though — the “Ossetian of the Year 2007” can wield a knife to deadly effect. The 52-year-old engineer, who is Deputy Building Minister of North Ossetia, has a bloody track record.
In February 2004 he stabbed to death a Zurich-based air traffic controller who was on duty the night that Kaloyev’s wife and two children died in a mid-air collision.
The Swiss court that sentenced him to eight years in prison heard grisly details of the revenge attack: Kaloyev had turned up at the home of the controller, showed him pictures of his dead family, then plunged a 14cm (5in) blade into the man’s stomach, heart and face.
Released early for good behaviour, Kaloyev has been drawn from his own tragedy and crime into the mess of the Russian-Georgian war. As soon as Russian radio announced that South Ossetia was coming under Georgian attack he got into his ministerial car and drove through the Caucasus mountains to join his fellow-Ossetians. Kaloyev, said his neighbours, has gone to war — again.
[From Vitali Kaloyev, the revenge killer hailed as a hero, joins Ossetian war - Times Online]
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