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Do high profile contract killings like in fiction actually ever happen? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 10 months ago by whaleross to c/[email protected]

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You know the type. High security, weeks or months of stakeout, sniper three blocks away...

The hitman sorta things I recall from the news are either planned and executed by national intelligence agents or some savage gunning and running from hired brutes, but never the variant with sophistication and private sector.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You don’t really think jumping from a building is the preferred method of suicide in Russia, do you? ;-)

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The leading cause of death among Russian journalists is suicide by jumping from a building with two gunshot wounds in the back of your skull after eating a bunch of polonium

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Could happen to anyone, really. Super common and not suspicious at all.

[–] whaleross 22 points 10 months ago

Well, those are intelligence agency, aren't they.