“Navalny was a guinea pig’: Novichok inventor suspects torturous experiments were the cause of death. “The man you know is a murderer,” the Russian chemist told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The allegations cannot be independently verified. The only thing that is certain is that Alexei Navalny had already survivedNovichok poisoning. The Kremlin critic died in the penal colony on February 16th. The exact cause of his death initially remained unclear. The family of the deceased suspects that the opposition activist was poisoned.