“Nobody decided lightly to deport a murderer who had been sentenced to life imprisonment after a few years’ imprisonment”, but in this case the execution of the sentence “had to be weighed against the danger to the life and liberty of Germans held in Russia”, but also of unjustly imprisoned political prisoners, Chancellor Olaf Solz said in justifying the federal government’s decision to include Vadim Krasikov, also known as the “Tiergarten killer”, in a prisoner exchange with Russia. For the federal government, “our obligation to protect German citizens, but also solidarity with the US” was of decisive importance, Mr. Scholtz said from the Bonn/Cologne airport, where he went to receive the prisoners freed by the Russia. The chancellor also clarified that the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) Friedrich Merz, who had given his explicit consent to the federal government’s decision, had been informed “in time” about the issue. After the exchange is complete, […]
Source: News Beast
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