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Navalny is being treated at the Charité Hospital, which has commissioned a special laboratory from the German army to conduct a toxicological examination of the opposition leader’s samples. Show that it is the neurotoxin Novitjok, writes Focus.
“It is an astonishing development that Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a nerve chemical agent in Russia,” said government spokesman Steffen Seibert, according to Spiegel.
Germany will now inform EU and NATO members about the test results and discuss how to proceed with this together.
– The government strongly condemns this attack, says Steffen Seibert.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas calls on Russia to investigate the poisoning.
“This makes it even more urgent that those responsible in Russia be identified and held accountable,” he told Reuters.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Germany has yet to directly notify them of the test results, writes Reuters.
Novitjok is a collective name for a group of neurotoxins secretly developed in a Soviet laboratory in the 1970s.
The same type of poison was used against former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia in the UK in 2018.
DN has previously spoken with Russian chemist Vladimir Uglev, who at the time did not believe that Navalny had been poisoned by Novitjok. However, he was convinced that the Russian security service is guilty.
Navalny got sick on August 20 when he was on a plane on a flight between Siberian Tomsk and Moscow. Before the plane took off, he had drunk a cup of tea, which his team suspects contained poison. The plane was forced to land in Omsk, almost 300 km east of Moscow, where it was hospitalized.
Germany offered him care and on Saturday he was picked up by a German ambulance that took him to the Charité University Hospital in Berlin.
Navalny has long been a nail in the eye of Russian President Putin.
Doctors at the Omsk Hospital have previously said that they have found no trace of poisoning in Navalny. At the same time, they claimed that they had not been subjected to any pressure from the Russian authorities during the time they dealt with the opposition politician.
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