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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he personally asked the Attorney General’s Office to allow opposition leader Alexei Navalny to leave Russia after the poisoning.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on October 22 at the Valdai forum that if Russia wanted to poison opposition leader Alexei Navalny, he would not be allowed to travel to Germany. This is reported by the television channel “Rain”.
Putin said that he personally ordered the Attorney General’s Office to verify the possibility of sending Navalny for treatment to Germany after the opponent’s wife, Yulia, approached him with this request.
“If the defendant you are really talking about … In any case, if the authorities wanted to poison someone, they would hardly send him to Germany for treatment. Wouldn’t they? Immediately, as soon as this citizen’s wife turned to I immediately instructed the Prosecutor’s Office to verify the possibility of leaving him abroad to receive treatment. We could not have let him out, because he had restrictions related to the judicial investigation and the criminal case, “said the Russian president.
He recalled that the Russian authorities had asked Germany to provide biological materials and an official conclusion following the announcement of Navalny’s poisoning by Novichok.
“In a conversation with one of the European leaders, I suggested that our specialists come to Germany together with French, Swedes, Germans, work on site, receive some materials. And with these materials, we could serve as the basis for starting a criminal case. And if this is really a criminal event, investigate. But they don’t give anything. How do you explain why? There is no explanation, “Putin added.
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny flew from Tomsk to Moscow, urgently landed in Omsk due to the deteriorating state of the politician. Navalny was unconscious in the toxic intensive care unit of the Omsk emergency hospital. 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 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. The “Charite” doctors announced on September 7 that they had brought him out of a medical coma and disconnected 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.
Russia’s 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.
On October 15, the European Union imposed sanctions on six Russian officials for the Navalny poisoning. Britain joined the sanctions.
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