Absurd accusation from Russia: Merkel government allegedly poisoned Navalny - "I'm sure that is exactly what happened"

The Merkel government is now certain about the case of the Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny: He was poisoned.

Moscow countered and blamed Germany.

• The Russian opposition politician

  Alexei Navalny

   has

  been poisoned

  with a chemical

  nerve

  agent.

• As government

  spokesman Steffen Seibert announced

  , the substance was

  unequivocally detected

  by a

  special laboratory at

  the

  Charité

  University

  Hospital

  . 

• After Angela Merkel condemned the attack, the tough counterattack from Moscow now follows.

Update from September 3, 10.15 a.m.:

The day before, Chancellor Angela

condemned

the poisoning of

critic Alexey

and admonished

by saying: “The

must now answer questions”.

The counterattack from

was not long in coming.

In Russia one now rejects all guilt and turns the tables unceremoniously.

Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov said, according to

the evening in Moscow: Even before Navalny was transported to Germany, "a whole complex of analyzes was carried out in our country, in which no toxic substances were identified."

Navalny poisoned in Germany?

Russia with violent allegations against the Merkel government

Since in Germany "the unequivocal proof" of a chemical

warfare agent was provided at Navalny

, the statement made by Russia means in reverse conclusion:

This conclusion is made clear by the Duma deputy

according to the report to the

news agency

.

He even

blamed

the employees of the

directly

: “A nurse, a doctor could administer the substance if they really wanted to bring Navalny into contact with a toxic substance in some way.

. "

Ivan Ridionov, the chief strategist of the Russian state broadcaster RT Deutsch, is also suggesting this notch.

According to his statement, Merkel's government was “urgently requested to explain the Novitschok Fund.

Who had access to the patient after landing in Berlin? ".

The Russian Foreign Office spokeswoman Maria Sakharova even went a step further and indicated that Germany's anti-Russian action had been planned in advance.

According to the picture, she spoke of a script that had been written before the poisoning.

Navalny poisoned!

CDU man tellingly on ZDF: "The murder weapon says everything about the perpetrator ..."

Update of 3 Septmeber, 6:59

: In

CDU foreign policy expert urges

a tough European response.

"Now we have again been brutally confronted with the inhuman reality of the

," said the chairman of the Bundestag's Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday in the

.

This is not a German-Russian issue.

There had to be a clear, tough and uniform European answer to this.

It was a "painful, slow, public death", said CDU politician @n_roettgen, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, on the case of # Navalny.

The Nord Stream 2 project must be put on hold as a “common European response”.

pic.twitter.com/Yqtpe9NeBI

- ZDF heute journal (@heutejournal) September 2, 2020

"Everything has to be put to the test," Röttgen emphasized.

If the

gas project were to be completed now

, that would be the maximum confirmation and encouragement for

to continue with precisely this policy, said Röttgen.

There is only one language that Putin understands.

That is why we have to talk about natural gas, gas procurement and the non-completion of the pipeline.

Röttgen (CDU) on ZDF on the Navalny and Putin case: "The murder weapon says it all"

Röttgen also called for an end to the special relationship between the

and the

, between French President

and

.

It is up to leading countries that Europe pursues an active foreign policy towards Russia.

Röttgen recalled that Nord Stream 2 had been implemented against the majority of European countries.

"The murder weapon says everything, by the way, the crime scene also says everything and the victim also says everything about the perpetrator," said Röttgen also in the

.

Something like that will be decided above.

Röttgen said: "This is top politics." The Kremlin will deny everything.

On ARD, Röttgen emphasized that he had “long considered the strategic partnership with Russia to be a dream”.

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Norbert Röttgen (CDU)

© Christoph Soeder / dpa

Navalny poisoned: Merkel condemns action “in the strongest possible way” - consultations on further steps against Russia

Update from September 2, 2020, 7:10 p.m.: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg

wants to

discuss possible consequences with Germany and all other allies

after the poisoning of the

proven by a Bundeswehr laboratory

.

"NATO sees any use of chemical weapons as a threat to international peace and security," said Stoltenberg on Wednesday evening in Brussels.

Meanwhile, has

, the German government against a "politicization" of the case

warned.

"We call on our partners to avoid any politicization of this incident and to rely solely on credible facts, which we hope will be delivered as soon as possible," said a statement published on Wednesday evening.

In it, the embassy also calls on the federal government to provide a “timely response” to a request for legal assistance from last week, in which information was asked about the German investigation results.

"We expect full cooperation and information exchange, including the existing bilateral legal mechanisms."

Chancellor #Merkel: Alexej #Nawalny was the victim of a crime, he should be silenced.

The federal government condemns this very strongly.

We expect the Russian government to agree to this.

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- Steffen Seibert (@RegSsprecher) September 2, 2020

The Kremlin has agreed to cooperate on the Navalny case

Update from September 2, 2020, 7:10 p.m.:

The

has agreed to cooperate fully following the accusations of the German government.

"We are ready and interested in fully cooperating and exchanging information on this issue with Germany," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, according to the Russian news

.

After evidence of poisoning near

, the

"expressed deep concern".

White House spokesman for the National Security Council, John Ullyot, said on Twitter on Wednesday: "

is utterly reprehensible." He announced that the US would work with allies and the international community to bring those responsible in

to justice to draw - "wherever the evidence leads".

Russia has the right to express its views peacefully and without fear of retaliation.

Navalny Foundation: Only the Russian state can have poisoned Kremlin critics

Update from September 2, 2020, 6:21 p.m.:

The

from

has blamed the Russian state for poisoning the opposition with a chemical nerve agent.

“Only the state can use Novichok,” wrote Iwan Schadnow on Twitter on Wednesday.

That would be "without a doubt" certain.

The federal government had previously stated that

a substance from the so-called Novitschok group had been detected

in

body.

According to Schadnow, the

and the military secret service GRU could carry out such an act.

In a radio interview, he said that the use of "chemical warfare agents" made it clear that the attack was organized by the state.

"Therefore we of course demand the initiation of criminal proceedings and a normal investigation of all the circumstances of the poisoning."

The Russian scientist Leonid Rink, who, according to the state media, is said to have worked on a government-supported program to develop Novitschok, rejected the possibility of a Novitschok deployment at

.

If the substance had been used on the opposition, he would be dead and not in a coma, said Rink of the state news agency Ria Novosti.

Navalny was poisoned: Merkel condemns the action "in the strongest possible way" - consultations with the EU and NATO about further steps against Russia

Update on 2 September 2020 17:37:

noted in a PK on the case

expressed.

The special laboratory of the Bundeswehr had unequivocally determined that Navalny was poisoned.

“He should be silenced, I condemn it in the strongest possible terms on behalf of the Federal Government.” Merkel also spoke with

about the new findings, and the parliamentary groups in the Bundestag and the Russian Ambassador were also informed.

"The

now has to answer questions," explains the Chancellor.

"The world will wait for answers." Together with

and the

, the next steps will now be discussed, because "The crime against Navalny is directed against the basic values ​​that we stand for."

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Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) speaks to the media in the Chancellery during a statement on the latest developments in the case of the Russian government critic Navalny.

© Markus Schreiber / AP POOL / dpa

Navalny was poisoned!

Merkel spokesman announces the result of the investigation - "Unequivocal evidence"

First report from September 2, 2020:

Berlin - In the present in Germany in treating Russian government critic

was, according to the

, "the unequivocal evidence" of a chemical

from the

provided.

Government

said

on Wednesday in Berlin.

At the instigation of the

where Navalny is being treated, one had

of the

a toxicological examination carried out on the basis of samples Nawalnys. 

Statement by the federal government in the #Nawalny case.

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- Steffen Seibert (@RegSsprecher) September 2, 2020

Kremlin critic Navalny poisoned: Merkel government demands an explanation from Putin

"It is a

that Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia," said Seibert.

“The federal government condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms.

The Russian government is urged to explain itself to the process. "

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The Charité in Berlin, where Alexej Navalny is currently being treated - according to the latest information from the federal government after poisoning.

© Kay Nietfeld / dpa

The Foreign Office will

inform

the

about the results of the investigation and the German government will

inform

its partners in the

and

about them.

“The federal government will also contact the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OVCW),” said Seibert.

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Putin critic Alexei Navalny (archive picture) is in the hospital.

© Pavel Golovkin / AP / dpa

Navalny case: Putin government called doctors' opinion on Kremlin critics "hasty"

Navalny, who suddenly fell into a

on a flight in his home country on August 20

and was initially

examined

in

, is being treated at the Charité at the urging of his family.

After evaluating clinical findings, the German doctors assumed that Navalny had been poisoned.

The

with President

had described the assessment as

.

(dpa / AFP / frs)

Video: Novitschok - What is behind the deadly warfare agent?

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