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The German government announced that the Charité hospital found “unequivocal evidence” of poisoning in Alexey Navalny, the Russian opponent who was left in a coma after allegedly drinking something mixed in tea before boarding a plane.
According to the German media Bild, the government spokesman, Steffen Seibert, indicated that a chemical nerve agent from the novitschok group was detected, such as those that would have been used in the Skripal case, for which he demanded “urgent” explanations from Russia about the case.
Navalny, who is hospitalized in serious condition at a Berlin hospital after being evacuated from Russia, was poisoned with a nerve toxic agent, a “shocking incident,” Seibert said.
He announced, meanwhile, that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will inform the Russian ambassador of the results of the investigation, and will study together with the European Union and NATO an “appropriate joint reaction.”
With precedents
The 44-year-old Russian opposition leader felt bad aboard a plane in Siberia last month. He was initially treated at a local hospital, before being transferred on a medicalized plane to the German capital.
The Charité hospital announced “some improvement” in the state of Navalni, who nevertheless remains in a coma and on a respirator.
This case has drawn parallels to two alleged poisonings in the UK related to the Kremlin.
In 2006, President Vladimir Putin was blamed for the poisoning death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London.
In 2018, the Kremlin was again accused of being behind the attempted assassination of former double agent Sergei Skripal in Salisbury, in the southwest of England, using the nerve agent Novichok.
The German government has indicated that it will inform NATO and European Union partners of its discoveries and seek a joint reaction on the case.
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