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France and Germany have submitted proposals for sanctions to the European Union in response to the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the sanctions list consists of nine people.
We are talking about representatives of the presidential administration of Russia and officials of the power structures. They are supposed to be banned from entering the European Union and all their European assets will be frozen.
The post does not provide the names of the possible people involved in the list.
In addition, according to Le Monde, the State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, in which the Novichok poison was developed, will be sanctioned.
The issue of sanctions in relation to the Navalny poisoning will be discussed at a meeting of the EU’s International Affairs Council in Brussels on October 12.
On October 7, the Chancelleries of France and Germany announced the preparation of proposals for European sanctions for the Navalny poisoning. The politician himself said that the EU should impose sanctions against the inner circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow sat urgently in Omsk due to deteriorating state of politician. Navalny was unconscious in the toxic resuscitation department of the emergency hospital No. 1 in Omsk. On August 22, he was taken to the Berlin clinic “Charite” in a specially equipped plane.
On September 2, the German government announced that traces of a substance similar in composition to Novichok had been found in Navalny’s body. The biological material extracted from the politician was examined by the laboratory of the German armed forces. The fact of the poisoning of Navalny with poison from the Novichok group was also confirmed by laboratories in France and Sweden.
On October 6, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reported that biomarkers of a cholinesterase inhibitor were found in Navalny’s body. This is a little known nerve agent that is not on the official OPCW list.
Navalny was in a coma for 18 days. Charité’s doctors announced on September 7 that they would bring him out of a medical coma and disconnect him from the ventilator. On September 14, German doctors reported that the politician is feeling better and is on his feet. On September 22, Navalny was discharged from the clinic, he is in rehabilitation.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the Navalny poisoning allegations were not supported by facts. The head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation, Sergei Naryshkin, claims that at the time of the departure to Germany there were no traces of poison on the body of the politician.
As Le Monde wrote, on September 14, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, Putin suggested that Navalny “for an unknown reason” may have taken poison from the Novichok group himself.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said that France and Germany, which had proposed to impose sanctions in connection with the Navalny case, headed the “anti-Russian coalition.”
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