"I am sure that if the corresponding organs of Germany were to provide us with necessary information there would be fewer misunderstandings," Lavrov told a press conference in Turkmenistan capital of Ashkhabad.
According to Lavrov, the girl is a citizen of Russia, therefore Moscow has the right to be informed of the case.
"In this case, we received the information about this case not from the official agencies of Germany, but first from the Russian-speaking community, then the family’s lawyer, then from the [girl’s] parents," Lavrov stressed.
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a media conference on Wednesday that Berlin police were doing their best to investigate the alleged sexual assault on the ethnic Russian teenager, despite earlier claims by prosecutors they had no evidence to believe the crime had actually been committed.
Last week, hundreds of Russian-speaking Germans protested the alleged cover-up of the crime by Berlin police outside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin.
