Macron asks Putin for a "clarification" on the Navalny affair

Navalny affair: Macron denounces an "assassination attempt", asks Putin for a "clarification" (Archives) -

President Emmanuel Macron met this Monday morning with Vladimir Poutin.

He asked the Russian president for "clarification" on the Navalny affair, a Russian political opponent who fell "mysteriously ill".

Several European laboratories evoke a stocking.

In a press release, the Elysee said that France "shared, on the basis of its own analyzes, the conclusions of several of its European partners on the facts of poisoning using a Novichok nerve agent in contravention of standards international conventions on the use of chemical weapons ”.

Emmanuel Macron did not hesitate to qualify the Navalny affair as an “assassination attempt”.

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