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A bottle of water can help solve the poisoning attack on Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny. The Russian opposition team described in an Instagram post that they had seized a bottle in Navalny’s hotel room in the Siberian city of Tomsk, in which traces of the neurotoxin Novichok were later found. So Navalny had already left.
This allows to reduce the time of the poisoning of the politician: it must have happened before he left the Tomsk hotel. Video from Instagram shows his team searching for suspicious items in a hotel room. Due to the politician’s early departure, the room in Tomsk had apparently not yet been cleaned, and Navalny employees who had stayed at the hotel took advantage of this opportunity. At the time, it had been known for an hour that Nawalnys had supposedly been poisoned. His flight to Moscow landed in Omsk.
“If you want to take something, only through the police”
In the video you can see three plastic water bottles packed in plastic bags. A woman, apparently a hotel employee, can be heard warning: “If you want to take something, just stop by the police, the manager just told me.” A male voice responds: “Unfortunately, we cannot accept that.”
After investigations in a special Bundeswehr laboratory, the federal government considers that it is unequivocally proven that Navalny was poisoned with a chemical from the so-called Novitschok group. Laboratories in France and Sweden confirmed this finding, according to the federal government. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has had experts from Navalny examine biomedical samples and now wants to inform German authorities of the results. For the OPCW’s technical secretariat investigations, a dedicated team of experts independently collected samples of Nawalnys, the organization said.
As SPIEGEL reported, laboratory tests in Germany also examined a bottle in which traces of Novitschok were also found. How exactly the bottle got to Berlin is unclear from the new Instagram post. Navalny’s close colleague Georgij Alburow announced more details in a YouTube broadcast Thursday night.
Navalny collapsed on the flight from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20. The machine had to make a stop in Omsk. Navalny was placed in an artificial coma at the hospital and ventilated. On August 22, he was flown to Germany, where he is being treated at the Charité in Berlin. Now he is conscious again, he is breathing and he has already informed Instagram with a photo.
The Moscow government had recently claimed that Navalny might not have been poisoned until after his departure. The Kremlin stressed several times that Russian doctors could not have found any symptoms of poisoning. Russia rejects the accusations of participation in the attack.
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