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Traces of poison in the water bottle: Navalny was apparently already poisoned in the hotel room
If conscious: Navalny. Image: keystone
According to his team, Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny has been shown to have been poisoned in Russia, at a hotel in the Siberian city of Tomsk. The poison is said to have been administered to him in a bottle of mineral water in his room.
The Navalny team showed a video of the bottles of the brand “Svyatoj Istochnik” (“Holy Spring”). Meanwhile, the European Parliament called for an international investigation into the case immediately.
The EU should be involved in this too, according to a resolution passed by MPs on Thursday. In it, they strongly condemned the assassination attempt on Navalny. The repeated use of chemical weapons against Russian citizens is also a cause for concern. The Russian authorities had repeatedly denied their involvement in the case and in other cases.
MEPs in Brussels called on Moscow to end intimidation, violence, harassment and repression of opposition activists. Parliament also called on the EU to reconsider relations with Russia. Moscow must remain isolated in international forums. Furthermore, the EU sanctions regime for human rights violations must be passed quickly, he said.
According to the video posted on Instagram, Nawalny’s team now sees as proven that the 44-year-old has already been poisoned on Russian soil. It is said that he was killed with a neurotoxin from the Novitschok group, which is prohibited as a chemical weapon. The federal government in Berlin repeatedly blamed Russia for this.
In light of Germany’s accusations, Moscow had recently claimed that Navalny might not have been poisoned until after his departure. Moscow’s state media is broadcasting a version of a Western plot against Russia to reimpose sanctions on the country. The Kremlin emphasized several times that Russian doctors could not have found any symptoms of poisoning in Navalny. You spoke of a metabolic disorder.
Meanwhile, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had Navalny examine biomedical samples. German authorities will be informed of the results, as announced by the Hague-based organization. The OPCW experts independently collected samples from Nawalny for the investigations.
Navalny’s team said a German lab had detected Novitschok’s traces on the water bottle. It showed in the video how Nawalny employees, despite warnings from a hotel employee in the room, collected all possible evidence with gloves and put it in plastic bags.
They decided to take the plunge, immediately after receiving news of Navalny’s health, he said. Some employees were still in Tomsk to finish the production of a video. They went to the hotel room with a lawyer, he told himself.
Navalny collapsed on August 20 on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. Because of this, the plane landed in Omsk. The opposition was put into an artificial coma in the hospital and ventilated. On August 22, he was flown to Germany, where he is being treated at the Charité in Berlin.
He is now conscious again, breathing alone and gave a sign of life with a photo on Instagram. Earlier it had also been speculated that the tea the Kremlin critic drank at the airport may have been poisoned.
“We had no particular hope of finding something like this,” the message from Nawalny’s team read. But since it was clear that Navalny was not only mildly ill, they collected everything and then handed it over to doctors in Germany. “It was also clear that the case in Russia would not be investigated. And so it is: almost a month has passed and Russia has yet to admit that Navalny was poisoned. “
The Russian authorities do not want to investigate until they have evidence of poisoning. Therefore, the Kremlin asked Berlin to cooperate directly. The case puts considerable strain on relations between Germany and Russia. (aeg / sda / dpa)
