Germany to Russia: we will protect our people, online and off
Tuesday 11/August/2020 - 01:54 PM

The murder in a central Berlin park of a Georgian
national, blamed by German prosecutors on the actions of a branch of the
Russian state, has been a serious burden on relations between the two
countries, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said.
Speaking at a joint press conference with his
Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow, Maas said on Tuesday that Germany
would do everything it could to protect its people, both in the online and
offline spaces.
“The murder in the Tiergarten, which prosecutors
believe was commissioned by a Russian state organ, has seriously weighed on our
relationship, so I made clear that we will defend the security of our people,
both online and off,” he said.