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German law enforcement agencies could be granted the right to investigate the case if Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died on the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany or if his condition worsened sharply while he was in a Berlin hospital.
The German security forces cannot open a criminal case for the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This was reported on September 22 by the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung.
According to the newspaper, Navalny’s case is outside the jurisdiction of German investigators, since the alleged crime did not take place in Germany and only the fact of the deal in Berlin connects him with the country. This is how the situation with the opponent differs from the criminal process for the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Britain, and the victims were also British subjects.
German law enforcement agencies could be given the right to investigate the case if Navalny died in Germany or if his condition drastically deteriorated while he was in a Berlin hospital, the newspaper noted.
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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