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Germany summons US ambassador over spy arrest
By Unknown 04:21
Germany evoked the US ambassador in Berlin on Friday following the apprehend of a man reported to have spied for the United States, heightening friction between the two countries over US eavesdropping in Germany.
The US ambassador, John B Emerson, was called in “in connection with an investigation by the federal prosecutor,” the German Peregrine Ministry verbally expressed in a verbalization. The US envoy “was asked to avail in the swift clarification” of the case, it integrated.
Federal prosecutors verbally express a 31-year-old German man was apprehended on Wednesday on suspicion of spying for peregrine astuteness accommodations. They did not identify the suspect or the astuteness accommodations.
German regime spokesman Steffen Seibert verbally expressed that Chancellor Angela Merkel been apprised of the apprehend.
He declined to comment on reports by Der Spiegel magazine and the quotidian Sueddeutsche Zeitung that the man worked for Germany’s peregrine perspicacity accommodation, kenned by its German acronym BND.
The newspapers verbalized the man was suspected of passing on information about a German parliamentary committee investigating the activities of US and peregrine spy agencies in Germany.
He worked with US astuteness since 2012, they reported.
Seibert verbalized members of the parliamentary panel had withal been apprised of the apprehend.
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