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The tests were carried out by a special laboratory in the Bundeswehr, where traces of the poison were found.
“It is a shocking fact that Alexei Navaln was the victim of an attack in Russia with a nerve paralyzing chemical,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert.
The German government report also claims that Germany condemns the attack on Navaln’s life and demands explanations from Moscow, writes the portal meduza.io.
“The government strongly condemns this attack. The Russian government is urgently asked to explain the incident,” Seibert said.
He stated that the Foreign Ministry would summon the Russian ambassador to Germany and inform him of the results of the investigation.
Navalnas, 44, one of President Vladimir Putin’s most staunch critics, felt ill on August 20 on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow and was taken to Omsk Hospital.
Later he was transferred to the Charite clinic in Berlin. Last week, doctors at the hospital said that Mr. Navaln was probably poisoned with cholinesterase inhibitors, but said they did not know exactly what the substance was.
In 2018, former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter were poisoned in the UK by the nerve paralyzing substance Novičiok, developed in the Soviet Union. This substance belongs to the cholinesterase inhibitors.
Seibert said the German government would inform other European Union and NATO partners of the findings. Berlin will discuss with its partners an “appropriate joint response” to Russia, he said.
For the second time this week, Berlin is calling on Moscow to investigate the circumstances surrounding the Navaln poisoning.
A. Navaln, who is currently in a coma, is being treated at a Berlin hospital.
Speaking to French ambassadors in Paris on Monday, German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that Europe needed “constructive” relations with Russia over the Old Continent’s own security, but it was now clear that “dark clouds” were gathering. on bilateral relations.
“Of course, we hope that Russia will contribute more to the clarification of the Navaln case than now,” he said with French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.
On Friday, the Charite hospital in Berlin, where Mr. Navalno is being treated, said there was a slight improvement in his condition, but that the 44-year-old opponent was still in a medically induced coma and on an oxygen machine.
Doctors at a Berlin hospital who examined Mr. Navalna believed that he was poisoned by a substance that inhibits the enzyme cholinesterase. Cholinesterase inhibition is a common feature of nerve paralyzing agents.
Navalno’s colleagues say the poison may have been added to his tea at the airport.
For their part, Omsk doctors claimed they had found no traces of poison on Navaln’s body, and the Kremlin rejected calls from the international community to investigate the opposition’s poisoning.
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