Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a joint news conference after a Normandy-format summit in Paris, France, December 9, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau/Pool
(Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said a Georgian man murdered in Berlin in August was himself a killer who took part in bloody acts on Russian soil and that Moscow's requests for his extradition had not been heeded.
Asked at a news conference in Paris if Russia would respond in kind to Germany's expulsion of two Russian diplomats over the man's killing, Putin said: "There are unwritten laws in such cases: you expelled our diplomats, we expel yours."
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