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According to the German government, “unequivocal evidence” of a chemical nerve agent from the Novitschok group was provided to the Russian government critic Alexej Navalny, who is being treated in Germany. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said Wednesday in Berlin.
“It is a shocking fact that Alexej Navalny was the victim of an attack with a nerve chemical agent in Russia,” Seibert said. “The German government condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms. The Russian government is urged to explain the incident.” Read here how the poison detected in the body works.
Chancellor Angela Merkel had consulted with Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, Justice Minister Christine Lambrecht, Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the head of the Chancellery Federal, Helge Braun, and agreed to additional steps.
The Foreign Ministry will inform the Russian Ambassador about the results of the investigation, and the German government will inform its partners in the EU and NATO about them. “The federal government will also be in contact with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OVCW),” Seibert said.
Navalny, who fell suddenly into a coma on 20 August on a flight from his home country and was initially examined in Omsk, is being treated at the Charité at the urging of his family. After evaluating the clinical findings, the German doctors assumed that Navalny had been poisoned. The Russian government had described the assessment of the Berlin Charité as hasty.
La Charité commented for the last time on the case last Friday. In a statement, the university hospital announced that Navalny’s poisoning symptoms were receding. His condition is stable, he is still in an intensive care unit in an artificial coma and is mechanically ventilated. There is no serious danger to life, but the long-term consequences of “severe patient poisoning” cannot be ruled out.
