BRUSSELS—German member of the European Parliament and co-chair of the Green Party, Rebecca Harms, was detained on Thursday at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. She was declared a “persona non-grata” by the Russian authorities and sent back to Brussels four hours later.
The Russian permanent representative to the European Union, Vladimir Chizhov, said that Harms has been blacklisted in response to European sanctions.
President of the European Parliament, Martin Schulz, described the incident as a “worrying setback for relations between the European Parliament and Russia.”
The German foreign ministry denounced it as “unacceptable.”
Harms says she was not aware of that and took precautions before her …read more
Source: The Epoch Times
