France-Sweden and Navalny found poisoning: Germany
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Germany says it has found strong evidence that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been subjected to nerve agents in laboratories in both Sweden and France. |
This was demanded by the German government on Monday. Navalny is currently being treated at an army-run charity hospital in Berlin, Germany. Navalny, who was in a coma last week, regained consciousness.
German government spokesman Stefan
Zeibert said samples collected from Navalny's body had also been sent to the
Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) laboratory for
chemical testing.
"The OPCW is conducting its
investigation independently," he said. So far, three separate laboratories
have found evidence of a toxic nerve agent in Navalny. ”
Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian
President Vladimir Putin, fell ill on August 20 on an internal flight from
Russia to the Siberian capital Moscow. Proponents of her case have been working
to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.
His flight with the ailing Navalny
made an emergency landing at Omsk in Siberia. He was first treated at a
hospital in the same city. Navalny, who was in a coma, was taken to Berlin,
Germany, for treatment.
Navalny was the first to be given a
Soviet-era toxic chemical novice from a hospital in Berlin, Germany. That said,
they found Novichik's presence on Navalny's body in the test.
The German government has strongly
criticized the EU for cracking down on Navalny's assassination attempt on
Russia.
Russia has denied the allegations in a
statement issued Friday stating "Similar, baseless allegations concerning
Russia's intelligence have been made more than once. They say they have not
seen any evidence of poisoning in Navalny's body.
Relations between Germany and Russia
have soured over the Navalny scandal. The Nord Stream 2 agreement between the
two countries to take gas directly from Russia to Germany is also under threat.
With the launch of the Nord Stream 2
pipeline, Germany will receive twice as much gas from Russia as the Nord Stream
1 pipeline. The Russian government is still working on this project. The gas
pipeline will run through the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
On Monday, German government spokesman
Stefan Zeibert said, "We will again ask Russia for an explanation of the
Navalny incident."
Earlier in 2016, former Russian spy
Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were also tried to be killed with a toxic
novice chemical in Salisbury, UK. The United Kingdom has blamed Russia for the
attack.
This novice was created in the 1980s
and 80s in the former Soviet era. Russia has denied the allegations in a
statement issued Friday stating "Similar, baseless allegations concerning
Russia's intelligence have been made more than once.
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