German Foreign Minister Annalena Berbock has announced the deportation of two Russian diplomats following a court ruling Wednesday that Moscow had ordered the 2019 assassination of a Georgian citizen in Berlin.
Burbock said the killing in Tiergarten Park was a serious violation of German law and German sovereignty and would put serious strain on Russian-German relations. “This state-sponsored assassination is a gross violation of the rules of German law and the sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany,” said Berbock, who said she had summoned the Russian ambassador and notified her of the deportation decision. “Therefore, we called the Russian ambassador,” Burbok said, adding that “we told him that two members of the embassy staff would be declared persona non grata.”
The Berlin decision provoked an immediate reaction from Moscow, which said through Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova that it would not leave unanswered the expulsion of Russian diplomats.
“Berlin’s unfriendly actions will not go unanswered. There will be announcements soon,” Zakharova said.
The Berlin Court of Appeals today sentenced 56-year-old Vadim Krazikov to life in prison for the 2019 murder of Zelimhan Kangosvili, a Georgian from Chechnya, in Tiergarten Park in central Berlin. The court has no doubt that the murder was committed on behalf of the Russian secret service FSB. “He received a government order to kill,” the German prosecutor said, referring to political motives and a “state order to assassinate on German soil.”
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