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German government spokesman Steffen Seiber said on Monday that laboratories in Sweden and France confirmed that Russian opponent Alexei Navalny had been poisoned with the dangerous nerve agent, novichok, developed by Russia in the 1980s and 1990s and already used in He went on to poison opponents of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Seiber said the tests by the Swedish and French laboratories were carried out “independently.”
Samples that had been taken from Navalny, who is currently hospitalized in Berlin, were also sent for laboratory testing to the OPCW, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons based in The Hague, Netherlands. .
On August 24, doctors at the Charité hospital in Berlin said Navalny was receiving treatment for poisoning with cholinesterase inhibitors, toxins that can have very serious effects on the nervous system, without specifying which substance was responsible for the poisoning.
Subsequently, the German government had made public the results of toxicological tests carried out by a special army laboratory in Navalny, according to which the Russian opponent was poisoned with novichok. On September 7, the Charité hospital in Berlin said that Navalny was no longer in an induced coma and that his condition was improving. Navalny breathed autonomously without the help of ventilators and responded to verbal stimuli. However, the hospital added that “it is still too early to assess the possible long-term effects of his severe poisoning.”
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