Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Archival photoMOSCOW, 5 Jun. The official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova, commented on the statement by German Interior Minister Nancy Feser about the threat of wiretapping by Moscow of German officials. The diplomat recalled that the German minister called the risk of wiretapping real, for example, in the government quarter of Berlin, and warned of a possible data leak .
"Feser forgot to add that German officials have always been tapped and tapped by Americans", Zakharova wrote on Telegram.
Last year, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the US National Security Agency, with the help of Denmark followed some European politicians between 2012 and 2014. In particular, we are talking about the already former German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, who at that time served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Then the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry called the revealed data on surveillance only the tip of the iceberg and noted that in reality the situation «more terrible».