The head of German intelligence did not rule out Russia’s interference in the country’s elections
BERLIN, 17 Mar — news, angelina Timofeeva. The head of the Federal intelligence service of Germany (BND) Bruno KAHL urged not to exclude the possibility of Russian interference in the election campaign in Germany.
“We should at least expect it (the intervention) could happen. We have experienced in the past not only in Germany but also in other regions of Europe, where soon will be elections,” said Pascal in an interview with the weekly Spiegel.
He added that “there is reason to believe that the attacks on the servers of the German Bundestag of Germany made under the Russian influence”.
Answering a question from Spiegel, the correlation of these statements with the findings of the report, published in the early years of the BND and the Federal office for the protection of the Constitution (counterintelligence Germany), which indicates the absence of evidence of Russian involvement in “misinformation campaign” in Germany, KAHL said that is not conclusive.
“First, there is this little gap between the evidence and the trial evidence. Second, our mission is to investigate it,” he said.
The official representative of the German government Steffen Seibert declined to comment on the contents of the report, adding that it had never said that the public can obtain access to these materials.
The Russian foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking about alleged Russian intervention in elections in the United States, France and Germany, said that there are no facts confirming it, no.
Russia has repeatedly been accused of attempting to interfere with the elections in Western countries, without providing any evidence. Moscow all these allegations were refuted and called unfounded.