Berlin says it has proof Navalny was poisoned in Novichok
Alexei Navalny participating in a march in memory of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in Moscow on February 29, 2020. AP Photo / Pavel Golovkin
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The medical examinations carried out on Alexeï Navalny by a laboratory of the German army provide "unequivocal proof" that the Russian opponent was the victim of poisoning "by a nerve agent of the Novichok type", the government announced on Wednesday German.
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The medical examinations carried out on the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny prove that he was poisoned by a product of the Novichok family, the German government spokesman said on Wednesday, 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.
"
It is shocking that Alexey Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia,
" added government spokesman Angela Merkel, asking Russia for "
urgent
"
clarification
on this poisoning.
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 with a molecule from the class of cholinesterase inhibitors, to which
Novichok
belongs
.
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