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Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Conversation with his own killer
FSB: Navalny’s call was false
With the call to his alleged murderer, the critic of the Kremlin Navalny staged a coup. In it, the man tells him how he tried to kill him. Now comes the reaction of the Russian secret service, but it is ridiculed.
The Russian national intelligence service FSB has described a phone call made by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny with an alleged murderer as false. The conversation, in which the alleged FSB man admits that Navalny was poisoned in the summer, was a “planned provocation to discredit the Russian FSB,” the FSB announced Monday night, according to state agency Ria Novosti. Investigations would be launched. That same day, Navalny posted a recording of the Dec. 14 phone call on YouTube, posing as the assistant to the head of the Russian Security Council to gain the man’s trust.
The call was made in the course of an investigation carried out by various media, including the “Spiegel”. Within hours of its publication, the recording had already been viewed more than five million times. Meanwhile, the Moscow Foreign Ministry announced that confidence in the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had fallen further because it was once again “hostage” to those who used it for geopolitical interests.
In October, the OPCW had shown that Nawalny had been poisoned with a neurotoxin from the Novitschok group, thus confirming the results of laboratories in Germany, France and Sweden. Germany had repeatedly asked Russia to solve the crime. Russia, on the other hand, had denounced the withholding of evidence. Navalny collapsed on a domestic flight in Siberia in August. The alleged FSB man said in the now-posted phone call that the poison was adhering to the inside of Nawalny’s underwear. The opponent only survived because the flight did not last long enough and the paramedics treated him very quickly.
Navalny sees Putin as the brain
Last week, various media outlets published an investigation that found that at least eight Russian intelligence agents had carried out the attack on Navalny. Russia, on the other hand, had always denied that Navalny was poisoned and declared that it had destroyed all of Novichok’s supplies. Last week, President Vladimir Putin had spoken of an observation by his sharpest critic by Russian intelligence officials, but he clearly rejected the poisoning. Navalny had repeatedly referred to the head of the Kremlin as the mastermind behind the murder.
The reaction of the Kremlin opponent to the FSB’s outrage came immediately: “Hahahahaha,” he wrote on Twitter. Other Twitter users did not skimp on ridicule: “Putin, give me back my underwear,” he said in an account. Another user wrote that Putin wanted to go down in history as the restorer of world power Russia, but is now the “panty poisoner.”
