MOSCOW, 4 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Germany has declared persona non grata two employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin.
Earlier media reported that the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel can impose diplomatic or other sanctions against Moscow if there is evidence that it is related to the murder of a citizen of Georgia in Berlin this summer.
Press Secretary of Russian leader Dmitry Peskov has repeatedly denied a connection between the murder in the German capital and the “official Russia”.
What happened in Berlin
At the end of August, unknown persons shot and killed 40-year-old citizen of Georgia in the district of Moabit. According to the newspaper Berliner Kurier, a man received a fatal gunshot wound to the head.A few days later the police arrested 49-year-old Russian. The Prosecutor stated that if it found the murder weapon.
The twenty-fifth of August, the online magazine Spiegel wrote that the result works in all directions, but the most likely scenario considers a “professionally planned and carried out assassinations”. It was emphasized that the customer could be either involved in crime or intelligence of a foreign state.
Thirtieth August the same newspaper published an article stating that the suspect may be an agent of the Russian special services. This conclusion the authors made on the basis that the suspect’s name is provided in the documents for a visa, supposedly missing in the Russian banks data, and the number of his passport indicates the interior Ministry, which “has already given the documents to the military intelligence GRU”.
The official representative of the German government Steffen Seibert said that the government “has taken note of media reports”.
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