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After falling ill at an airport in previous years, critic of the Russian regime Alexei Navalny flew to Berlin for medical treatment.
With the help of a military laboratory, the German government was able to establish that the chemical Navalny was exposed to was a Novitjok group neurotoxin.
Two independent laboratories have now investigated the same topic, including Swedish and French, and have come to the same conclusion.
The Swedish FOI, the Swedish Defense Investigation Agency, was asked to investigate the matter on Saturday 5 September. The next day the test result was ready and the reply was sent to Germany on Monday.
This is what the director of the FOI department, Åsa Scott, tells TV4 Nyheterna.
– Once you get the result, it is an unequivocal result. It is not the case that these issues may be. If you get the result right, it’s a very safe result, she says.
He has been condemned by Merkel and Löfven
The reason Germany turned to a Swedish laboratory is because it considers itself independent and has the opportunity to test chemical weapons, says Åsa Scott.
The sample tests were conducted at Ki’s laboratory in Umeå. With the help of blood samples from Navalny, the Swedish laboratory has reached its conclusion. There are defined routines for this type of test, says Åsa Scott.
– It’s a lot about having a chain of tests to be able to ensure that it is a certain substance, that you have verified it and to be able to guarantee that no one else has been able to handle this test and somehow has changed the test, he says.
Novitjok is a poison that was developed in a secret Soviet laboratory in the 1970s. It is the same substance that was used against the defected Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in 2018 at British Salisbury.
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