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Photo: Emmanuel Macron (elysee.fr)
French President Emmanuel Macron said the use of banned chemical weapons against Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is beyond question. Russia should provide clarification on this case.
Macron said this in Vilnius at a joint press conference with Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, Reuters reports.
“It is clear that this is an assassination attempt that took place in Russia against the leader of the Russian opposition with the use of a chemical agentmanipulated in Russia. Therefore, Russia must provide clarification“, – he said.
Macron noted that the international community will have to decide on the consequences of the Navalny poisoning based on information provided or not by Russia for an investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).
Recall that the Russian opponent fell into a coma on August 20. Then he lost consciousness during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow. He was admitted to a hospital in Omsk. At the same time, Russian doctors found no poison in the body of the politician and rejected the poisoning version.
Two days later, Navalny was transferred to the Charite clinic in Berlin, where German doctors established that the opponent had been poisoned with a Novichok-like substance. On September 23, he was discharged from the Charite clinic in Berlin. Navalny will remain in Germany until the end of the rehabilitation course.
The OPCW has expressed “serious concern” over reports of Navalny poisoning by Novichok-class poison.
Earlier, the French newspaper Le Monde reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to Macron on September 14, said that Navalny himself may have taken Novichok’s poison, causing him to fall into a coma. Macron, in turn, immediately rejected the version about Navalny’s attempt to poison himself.
