Germany wants Snowden to give evidence in Moscow, not Berlin


  • World
  • Thursday, 07 Nov 2013

BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers looking into secret U.S. monitoring of Angela Merkel's mobile phone said on Wednesday they would try to take evidence from former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden in Moscow without compromising his status there.

In what might be a disappointment to Snowden - who wants to travel to Germany or France, according to a German politician who met him last week - officials from Merkel's government and the centre-left ruled out bringing him to Germany.

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