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According to the French daily Le Monde, French President Emmanuel Macron rejected the suggestion by Russian colleague Vladimir Putin that opposition leader Alexei Navalny himself might have been poisoned with poison from the Novichok group.
On September 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a telephone conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron, suggested that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny “for an unknown reason” may have taken poison from the Novichok group himself.
The French newspaper Le Monde wrote about this on September 22, citing data from its own sources.
As the newspaper writes, Putin spoke “with disdain” about Navalny, said he used the Anti-Corruption Fund to blackmail officials and called “simple In Internet”.
Putin allegedly explained the absence of an investigation into the incident due to the fact that the Russian Federation cannot receive the test results.
Macron, according to the newspaper, rejected Putin’s version that Navalny allegedly poisoned himself.
The Kremlin website reported that during the conversation between the two leaders, the situation surrounding the Navalny case was thoroughly discussed. The Elysee Palace reported that Macron in a conversation expressed concern about the “criminal act” committed against Navalny. The French president confirmed that the results of tests carried out by a French laboratory indicate poisoning with a toxin from the “Novichok” group, according to the press release.
On August 20, the plane in which Navalny was flying 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 emergency hospital No. 1 in Omsk. On the morning of August 22, he was flown to the Charite clinic in Berlin.
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 a special 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.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said Berlin’s statements about the Navalny poisoning were not supported by facts. The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin, claims that at the time of his departure to Germany there were no traces of poison on the politician’s body.
Doctors “Charite” reported on September 7 that Navalny was brought out of a medical coma and disconnected from the ventilator. On September 14, German doctors reported that the politician is feeling better and is on his feet. On September 15, the opponent posted his first post on Instagram after the poisoning.
Colleagues of the opponent said a bottle of mineral water with traces of poison was found in his hotel room in Tomsk. This indicates that Navalny was poisoned before leaving for the airport, they stressed. The founder of the Fundación Cine por la Paz, Jaka Bizil, said she was taken to Germany on a rescue board.
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