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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has regained consciousness and is already speaking, Reuters reported, citing Der Spiegel.
The 44-year-old opponent passed out on a plane en route from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20 after drinking tea at the airport. The plane made an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Omsk, where he was hospitalized in a coma. A few days later, he was transported to Germany after initial resistance from Russia, which was abandoned after the intervention of the leaders of France and Germany, Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel.
The Navalny police guard at Berlin’s Sharite Hospital hopes he can give more details about what happened soon.
According to the German edition, Navalny’s statements could be dangerous to the people behind the attack.
Yesterday, Germany announced that samples had been sent for analysis to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
The German government sees no reason to pass the evidence directly to Russia, said deputy German government spokeswoman Martina Fitz. She pointed out that the Navalny poisoning was a violation of international law prohibiting chemical weapons, not just a dispute between Berlin and Moscow.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said there was a “significant probability” that the possible poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny had been ordered by senior Russian officials.
“We will make sure that we have done everything possible to reduce the risk of something like this happening again,” he said.
