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

2020-09-03T03:22:15.488Z


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


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

Merkel demands answers from Russia.

  • 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

  • The

    federal government

    spoke of an attack which it

    condemned

    “in the strongest possible way”

    .

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

Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny, which was

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

Russian Embassy in Berlin

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

Navalny

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.

pic.twitter.com/Tu5LKI4Caf

- Steffen Seibert (@RegSsprecher) September 2, 2020

The Kremel agreed to cooperate on the Navalny case

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

The

Kremlin

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

agency RIA Novosti

.

After evidence of poisoning near

Navalny

, the

US government has also

"expressed deep concern".

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

Alexei Navalny's poisoning

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

Russia

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

director of the anti-corruption foundation FBK

from

Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny

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

Navalny's

body.

According to Schadnow, the

Russian secret service FSB

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

Navalny

.

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:

Chancellor Angela Merkel

noted in a PK on the case

Navalny

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

Federal President Steinmeier

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

"The

Russian government

now has to answer questions," explains the Chancellor.

"The world will wait for answers." Together with

NATO

and the

EU

, 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

Alexei Navalny

was, according to the

federal government

, "the unequivocal evidence" of a chemical

nerve substance

from the

Nowitschok group

provided.

Government

spokesman Steffen Seibert

said

on Wednesday in Berlin.

At the instigation of the

Berlin Charité

where Navalny is being treated, one had

special laboratory

of the

Bundeswehr

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

Statement by the federal government in the #Nawalny case.

https://t.co/QzFIgdnLUs pic.twitter.com/ZBTLlJo4M4

- Steffen Seibert (@RegSsprecher) September 2, 2020

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

"It is a

shocking occurrence

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

Ambassador of Russia

about the results of the investigation and the German government will

inform

its partners in the

EU

and

NATO

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

coma

on a flight in his home country on August 20

and was initially

examined

in

Omsk

, 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

Russian government

with President

Vladimir Putin

had described the assessment as

rash

.

(dpa / AFP / frs)

* Merkur.de is part of the Ippen-Digital editorial network.

List of rubric lists: © Pavel Golovkin / AP / dpa

Source: merkur

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