The medical examinations carried out on the Russian opponent Alexey Navalny prove that he was poisoned by a product of the Novichok family, declared, Wednesday (September 2), the spokesman of the German government, referring to a poison already used against the former spy Sergei Skripal in 2018 in Great Britain.
Toxicological tests carried out by a German army laboratory have provided "unequivocal evidence" of poisoning, Steffen Seibert said in a statement.
Alexeï Navalny suffered a malaise on August 20 on board a plane between Siberia and Moscow after drinking tea at the airport.
Hospitalized initially in Omsk, Siberia, he was transferred on August 22 to Germany, where his doctors quickly suspected poisoning by a molecule of the class of cholinesterase inhibitors, to which Novichok belongs.
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