The U.S. Consulate in Benghazi is seen in flames during a protest by an armed group said to have been protesting a film being produced in the United States September 11, 2012.(Photo: Reuters)
Germany on Wednesday condemned "in the strongest terms" attacks on US missions in Libya and Egypt sparked by a US-made film deemed offensive to Islam.
"The federal government condemns in the strongest terms the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt," government spokesman Steffen Seibert told a news conference.
"Such violence against diplomatic facilities can and may never be a means of political debate, of political action," he said.
He also lamented as "tragic and difficult to bear" the killing of four people, including the US ambassador to Libya, in a mob attack on the US consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi.
They had been "victims of this religious fanaticism which does not preserve human life," he said.
US President Barack Obama confirmed that Ambassador Chris Stevens was among four Americans killed in Benghazi late Tuesday.
The attack came just hours after Islamists stormed the US embassy in Cairo in a similar protest against the film.
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