- Date
- 10/01/1995
- First
- Jochen
- Surname
- PIEST
- Sex/Age
- M, 27
- Incident
- crossfire
- Motive
- J
- Place
- rail station
- Job
- journalist
- Medium
- Federal District Plus
- Chechnya
- Street, Town, Region
- Chervlyonnaya, Chechnya
- Freelance
- no
- Local/National
- foreign, Stern (Germany)
- Other Ties
- Cause of Death
- crossfire, sniper
- Legal Qualification
- no information
- Impunity
- No Information
On 10 January 1995 Jochen Piest, correspondent for the German magazine Stern, and Vladimir Sorokin, a Rossiskaya Gazeta journalist, came under fire from Chechen fighters. They were near Chervlyonnaya railway station, 25 km north-east of Grozny, taking photographs of Russian sappers clearing mines from the railway. Jochen Piest was shot three times and fatally wounded.