They tried to poison Navalny twice – Times

The information was shared by representatives of the German special services with their British colleagues.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was tried for the second time during his stay in a hospital in the city of Omsk. This was reported on Saturday, December 12 by The Times.

“After a first failed assassination attempt, the alleged state security agents attempted to complete the assassination,” Western intelligence sources told us. <...> a second dose of poison before sending it to safety in Berlin, “the publication says.

It should be noted that this information was shared by representatives of the German special services with their British colleagues.

“This was done with the expectation that he (Navalny – editor) would be dead when he arrived in Berlin,” the newspaper writes.

As stated in the article, the second dose of the nerve agent Novichok would increase the probability of the politician’s death if, after the first poisoning attempt, the ambulance team had not injected him with atropine after the plane landed in Omsk.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he personally helped send Navalny to Berlin for treatment. He also assured that if the politician wanted to poison the Russian authorities, he would not be allowed to go abroad.

At the same time, the British, German and French intelligence services came to the conclusion that the poisoning of the Russian opponent was organized directly by the FSB.

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