The Russian Embassy in Switzerland denied any threats to journalists there and said it reminded them of laws in force in Switzerland and Russia that punish the legitimacy of terrorism.
In a statement to the “Novosti” agency, the press office of the Russian Embassy said, ”We would like to emphasize that the statement of the embassy does not contain any personal threat to the journalist A. Mensen. The Embassy reminded the journalists of the National Communication Center: they live in a state of law and with the ban on supporting terrorist activities must comply with the rules of the law.
In the embassy statement, it was added that first of all, the legal customs of Switzerland were referenced, and only conditional reference was made to the Russian law to show that the law of the Russian Federation and Switzerland are “almost the same” for the people who support terrorism.
Earlier on Thursday, the Swiss Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian Ambassador to Bern, Sergey Garmonin, after the embassy’s statement about a Swiss journalist.
“The Swiss Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Bern today, after the embassy’s statement in the NZZ newspaper about a Swiss journalist,” the embassy said in a statement.
Earlier, a Swiss reporter of the German newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung published a statement on the website of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland, expressing his regret in an article called Mensen.
Source: Novosti
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