Russia asked not to stir up anti-immigrant hysteria in Germany – Rosbalt.RU

January 27, 2016, 21:15 | Berlin | Girl | violence | Refugees | propaganda

 German authorities have been asked not to use for political purposes the case of a girl from a family of Russian Germans, rumored to be the victims of violence in Berlin.

 

 “There is no reason to make the incident a political tool,” – said spokesman Steffen Seibert German authorities.

 

 Harsher was German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. There is no justification to use the case “for political propaganda and to intervene in an already difficult internal German debate on migrant and incite it,” he said, responding to yesterday’s speech of his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the “case of Russian-speaking girl Lisa.”

 

 German authorities are doing their best to sort out what had happened, said Steinmeier. According to him, today in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will provide the Russian ambassador in Berlin, all the necessary information. “I can only advise the Russian authorities to take into account the results of the investigation”, – quotes the Minister of DW.

 

 Earlier, Interior Minister in the government of Berlin, Frank Henkel said that “surprised” the intervention of Moscow in the ongoing police investigation into the incident with the Russian-speaking 13-year-old girl. “The allegation that investigators had something to hide, does not become true just because it is constantly repeated,” – said a senior police officer.

 

 On the eve of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the German government of concealing the truth about what happened on political grounds. “It is clear that the girl was not exactly voluntarily disappeared for 30 hours,” – said the head of the Foreign Ministry. “I hope that will not be a repetition of cases like our daughter Lisa, when the news that she was gone, too long hidden, for whatever reasons,” – he added.

 

 The Russian diplomat rebuked the government of Berlin in an attempt to “politically correct varnished reality internal political purposes”.

 

 Russian media earlier with reference to relatives schoolgirl reported that the girl was allegedly raped by migrants. The police confirmed that it is indeed one day, the number of missing, but later found. The official statement of law enforcement said that the investigation has not established either the kidnapping or rape.