(1 Aug 2024)
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Cologne – 2 August 2024
1. Wide of plane
2. Cars arriving
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"First of all, the good news: everyone has arrived safely. The entry formalities have been completed and now it will also be a matter of checking everyone’s health over the next few days and providing the help that is needed."
4. Mid of jet engine
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"I was able to talk at length with those who have arrived here and have now been released from captivity in Russia. It was very moving. Many did not expect this to happen now and are still very full of the feelings associated with suddenly being able to be free after all. Many feared for their health and even their lives. That needs to be made very clear. And that is why it is also important that we have now made this protection possible for them here."
6. Plane staircase
7. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"I believe that this is the right decision. And if you had any doubts, you lose them after talking to those who are now free."
8. Wide of plane
9. SOUNDBITE (German) Olaf Scholz, German Chancellor:
"Now once again a special moment for me. A moment that has certainly intensified the friendship between the US and Germany. The conversation I had with the American President emphasized that very much."
10. Wide of plane
STORYLINE:
Chancellor Olaf Scholz has welcomed Germans and Russians freed in the prisoner swap to Germany and says he had “very moving” conversations with them.
Scholz said after they landed at Cologne/Bonn Airport late Thursday that “everyone has arrived safely” and they will undergo health checks in the coming days.
He said that “many did not expect this to happen now and are still very full of the feelings associated with suddenly being able to be free.”
“Many feared for their health and even their lives. That needs to be made very clear,” Scholz added.
The 16 prisoners freed by Russia and Belarus included five German citizens, and the deal involved Germany deporting to Russia Vadim Krasikov, who was serving a life prison sentence for what judges concluded was a Russian state-ordered killing in Berlin in 2019.
Scholz said "I believe that this is the right decision. And if you had any doubts, you lose them after talking to those who are now free."
The German leader said it was “a special moment for me. A moment that has certainly intensified the friendship between the US and Germany.”
Whilst Krasikov was the most infamous of the eight people returned to Russia, it also received two alleged “sleeper” agents who were jailed in Slovenia, three men charged by federal authorities in the U.S. and two men returned from Norway and Poland.
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