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Nawalny’s blood samples were flown to The Hague in a helicopter.
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“Julia, you saved me”: Navalny thanked his wife
Source: dpa / Daria Nawalny
More than a month ago, Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned. Now he is demanding that the Russian authorities return his clothes, as “important evidence”. Meanwhile, it is known how the federal government tried to clarify the matter from the beginning.
reKremlin critic Alexei Navalny has called on Russia to return the clothes he wore more than a month ago on the day he was poisoned. “My clothes are very important evidence,” Navalny wrote on his website Monday. Russian investigators “would hide this crucial evidence.”
Navalny passed out on a domestic flight in Russia on August 20, presumably after a poison attack. Doctors at the treating hospital in the Siberian city of Omsk said according to the Interfax news agency that investigators had taken the clothes.
Navalny went on to say that Russian authorities claimed that no nerve agent had been found. However, independent laboratories had found the poison in his body. “None of this exists in the political and legal reality of Russia.”
The opposition politician has been treated at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin since August 22. According to information from special laboratories, he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the Novichok group. He was in an artificial coma for weeks. He’s doing better now.
Germany is probably not legally responsible
The “Süddeutsche Zeitung” reports that the German authorities have not yet taken any criminal action against the unknown perpetrators. Even before the first results of the investigation in the Navalny case were published, the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe was called in to clarify whether Germany could take over the legal process. The result: since it is not a war crime, Germany has no control under international law, as the act, unlike the Skripal case in Great Britain, took place on Russian soil.
Only if Navalny had died in Germany would the investigations have been possible. However, these should have come from the Berlin prosecutor’s office.
However, the newspaper reports, the federal government has gone to great lengths to obtain information about the crime. For example, experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons received a helicopter to transport the blood samples from Nawalny to The Hague.
Navalny thanks his wife
Navalny can now walk again. But many things are still difficult for him. On his Instagram account, he thanked his wife Julia for her help. Julia, you saved me. That should be added to neurobiology textbooks, ”the 44-year-old wrote.
His wife always took care of him during the coma, talked to him, sang songs and played music. He couldn’t remember any of that. Julia brought him back to life like in a movie with “relentless love and care.”
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