Germany has declared on Wednesday "persona non grata" to two Russian diplomats in connection with the murder last August of a Georgian citizen of Chechen origin in Berlin, a death that the German Prosecutor's Office believes was ordered directly by Moscow or the republic North American Russian Chechnya.

Officials have seven days to leave the country, according to the note that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has delivered to the Russian ambassador, Sergey Nechaev , who was summoned for this purpose. The reason given by Berlin is that the officials in question have refused to fully cooperate in the clarification of the case, despite repeated and firm petitions made from the highest level.

From Moscow it is reported that there will be a response to the German measures , which has been described as "unfounded and unfriendly." The expulsion of diplomats is carried out under article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement declaring "immediately non-grata person to two employees of the Russian embassy in Berlin" . In a previous statement, the Prosecutor's Office affirmed that "there are enough real indications that the murder of Tornike K was carried out by order of state organs of the Russian Federation or by the Russian Republic of Chechnya"

The victim was 40 years old and had fought in the Chechen war alongside the rebels. He subsequently joined the Georgian security forces. His murderer, who shot him in the head from a bicycle , was initially a Russian whose documents identified him as Vadim Sokolov. He was arrested shortly thereafter thanks to the testimony of teenagers who saw him throw the murder weapon, his wig and the bicycle into the Spree River.

The research portal 'The Bellingcat' revealed yesterday that the real name of the murderer of a Georgian citizen of Chechen origin shot last August in the heart of Berlin, is Vadim Krásiko , 50, and not Vadim Sokolov, as it appears in his identification document. Also his date of birth was false, he was born on August 10, 1965 and not in 1970, as contained in the documents he presented when he was arrested.

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