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Thursday, September 03, 2020
The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, Röttgen, finds clear words in the Navalny case. He speaks of an “inhuman reality”, of “dream” and of a “Putin regime”. Röttgen puts the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline into play as a German pressure medium.
Following evidence of a poison attack on Russian opposition politician Alexej Navalny by a German armed forces laboratory, the chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee, Norbert Röttgen, blamed the Kremlin for the attack. “Now we have again brutally faced with the inhuman reality of the Putin regime,” said the CDU politician in ARD. “Now we should respond in a European way and, as Europeans, defend a minimum of civilization and respect for people.”
He had “long regarded the strategic partnership with Russia as a dream.” If the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline was completed now, “that would be the ultimate confirmation for Vladimir Putin to continue exactly with this policy, because he will even be rewarded for it,” said the CDU politician.
Government spokesman Steffen Seibert had announced that Navalny had “undoubtedly” been poisoned with a chemical nerve agent. Therefore, the substance of the so-called Nowitschok group was detected by a special laboratory of the Bundeswehr. Chancellor Angela Merkel condemned the “attempted poisoning” of the Russian opposition member “in the strongest terms.”
Navalny had flown from Russia to Berlin for medical treatment on August 22 with symptoms of poisoning. Since then, he has been cared for by doctors at the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
