The 13-year-old girl has been reportedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted in the German capital by a group of immigrants. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed hope on January 26 that Germany's migration problems would not lead to an attempt to cover up what was really happening for some internal political reason.
"It is precisely this fact that explains such attention and it would be absolutely wrong to seek here some behind-the-scenes plans," Peskov told reporters, commenting on Berlin’s accusations against Moscow of exploiting the alleged sexual attack for propaganda purposes.
The Kremlin cannot agree with the charges, since the case is used to alienate the European Union, he noted.
"We cannot accept such accusations… It concerns a Russian citizen. Any country protects its citizens, any country expresses extreme concern, if information emerges that its citizens face some violations of the law, some displays of violence, or there is information that has yet to be confirmed, and so on," Peskov outlined.
On Thursday, Lavrov urged Berlin to provide information on the German inquiry, stressing that Moscow received the information about the case not from the official agencies of Germany, but first from the Russian-speaking community and then from the family’s lawyer and the girl’s parents.
The following day, the German Foreign Office handed the Russian ambassador data it had gathered in the case on the teen.
