From the “not this shit again” files:

The head of Russia’s Orthodox Church is launching an investigation into whether the last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, and his family were victims of a ritual murder carried out by angry Jews in 1918, Church leaders revealed in a statement Tuesday.

“A large share of the church commission members have no doubts that the murder was ritual,” Father Tikhon Shevkunov, the Orthodox bishop heading the panel, told The Associated Press.

Russia’s top investigative agency has also said it will conduct an independent probe into the theory.

newsweek.com (autoplay vid embedded at link)

FFS.