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Photo: Alexey Navalny (facebook.com/navalny)
France and Germany have decided on the sanctions, which will be a reaction to the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. It can include nine people.
This is reported by the French newspaper Le Monde.
“The list contains the names of nine people,” the newspaper writes, citing its own sources.
According to the newspaper, we are talking, in particular, about employees of the presidential administration and the forces of order. The State Research Institute for Organic Chemistry and Technology, where the Novichok poison was developed during the Soviet era, will also be sanctioned.
At the same time, the publication does not exclude that Moscow “may take retaliatory measures.”
“This list, which involves the freezing of bank accounts and a ban on travel to Europe, will be discussed at a meeting in Brussels on October 12,” the statement said.
It was previously reported that France and Germany would offer their European partners an additional sanctions package against Russia.
Furthermore, former German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that sanctions for the Navalny poisoning would be imposed on the basis of the findings of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has already said that the OPCW is making general statements about the poisoning, which must be confirmed by professional information.
