Macron demands explanations from Moscow on Navalny

The international community will have to decide on the consequences of the Navalny poisoning based on information provided or not provided by Russia, Macron said.

French President Emmanuel Macron said the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a banned chemical cannot be questioned, and Russia is obliged to provide explanations for this, the politician said during a press conference in Vilnius. . On Monday, September 28, Reuters reports.

“It is absolutely clear that this is an assassination attempt committed on Russian soil,” Macron said.

According to the French leader, the international community must react to what happened, and its response will depend on whether Russia provides information that can help the investigation of 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. Later, the German authorities reported that the Russian opponent had been poisoned with poison from the Novichok group and admitted that the Russian authorities could be involved. Moscow denied these accusations, stating that before leaving Omsk, there were no traces of toxic substances on Navalny’s body.

Also, depending on the version The worldOn September 14, Putin voiced various versions of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s poisoning of Macron, including the one that sparked the most interest. According to the head of the Russian Federation, Navalny himself could have accepted Novichok for some unknown reason.

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