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Germany Says Russia Linked to Berlin Assassination
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1:19Now PlayingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government expelled two Russian embassy staff in response to what it says is a lack of cooperation by Moscow in the investigation of a contract killing of a Georgian man in a Berlin city park.
The Foreign Ministry’s decision came after Germany’s federal prosecutor said earlier on Wednesday that there are sufficient indications that the ethnic Chechen victim was killed either on the order of an agency of the Russian federation or of the Chechen republic.
“We haven’t seen that Russia has offered support in the investigation of this murder,” Merkel told reporters after a NATO summit in Watford, England. The German leader said she discussed the matter with allies at the meeting.
The case could complicate Merkel’s delicate relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She said she’ll discuss the matter with Putin in Paris on Dec. 9, when they’ll meet along with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and France’s Emmanuel Macron, to seek a path to peace in eastern Ukraine.
Those efforts may now be overshadowed by the fresh tensions.
“We consider the statements from the Germans about the expulsion of two employees of the Russian embassy in Berlin to be groundless and unfriendly,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said, according to RIA Novosti. “We won’t accept a politicized approach to the investigation. We are forced to carry out retaliatory measures.”
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