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RT - US aggressively threatened to 'cut off' Germany over Snowden asylum - report
29 maart 2015
According to Greenwald (who was present at the event to receive an award) Gabriel said that Snowden was forced to seek refuge in “Vladimir Putin’s autocratic Russia” since no other nation was either willing, or able to protect him from threats of imprisonment by the US government. This caused a member of the audience to interrupt vice chancellor and yell out: “Why don’t you bring him to Germany, then?”
Gabriel replied that Germany would have its hands tied, obliged to extradite Snowden to the US if he were on German soil.
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