Alleged Lukashenko evidence: faked poison attack on Navalny by the West? Putin government defends police

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 4, 11:34 a.m

.: After the poisoning of the

, a

the actions of the authorities who have not yet started an

into the case.

The judges in

rejected a complaint from

on Friday

, as the state agency

reported.

His application was examined within the legally stipulated period and passed on to the responsible investigative authorities.

The

team

filed

a

shortly after Navalny lost consciousness on a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow about two weeks ago and was taken to a hospital.

The police in Tomsk, Siberia, then initiated “preliminary investigations”.

Navalny case: Kremlin defends non-investigations - mutual legal assistance request in Germany

The

had recently defended the police’s approach to investigating only when it was established that Navalny had actually been poisoned.

The

has not seen any evidence of this, but has

submitted a request for

legal assistance in

.

The federal government with Chancellor

on Wednesday after investigations by a special laboratory of the armed forces that they saw it as proven beyond doubt that Navalny had been poisoned.

Doctors in the Siberian city of Omsk, where Navalny was being treated, said on Friday that the

had had digestive and nutritional problems for five to seven days before the incident.

The doctors had previously spoken of metabolic disorders.

FDP parliamentary group vice-Lambsdorff: Attack on Navalny is a sign of weakness

Update from September 4, 10:41 a.m.:

The

deputy

sees the poisoning of the Russian oppositionist

as a sign of the nervousness of the perpetrators.

"By eliminating an oppositionist, you try to intimidate all other critics and oppositionists and keep them from doing their work," said Lambsdorff of the

.

"But for me, the Navalny case shows how nervous the perpetrators must be," he said. 

“In the Kremlin you can see the protests in Belarus against the fake election, in Khabarovsk people have been taking to the streets against the government in Moscow for weeks.

The rulers in the Kremlin still remember the nationwide protests of 2018 against plans for pension reform, ”Lambsdorff said.

"The attack on Navalny is therefore not a sign of strength, but rather of uncertainty and weakness." When asked whether the

,

Lambsdorff said

: "Unfortunately there is a lot to be

said

for it."

Poison attack on Andrei Navalny: EU calls sanctions against Russia possible

Update of 4 September, 9:44

: The

checks for the poison attack on the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny their future dealings with Russia.

The

described

as a possible option

on Thursday evening

.

Borrell said the EU condemned "the attempted murder" of Navalny "in the strongest possible terms".

The Russian government must "do everything possible to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into this crime."

The

, Fernando Arias, stressed in The Hague that the Navalny case was "cause for serious concern".

According to the Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the use of neurotoxins is classified as “the use of chemical weapons”.

The use of chemical weapons is fundamentally "reprehensible" and violates the "legal norms established by the international community".

The

, Sergei Nechayev, warned the German government against

the case.

As long as the situation has not been clarified, he calls on people to "refrain from making preliminary assessments and only rely on the facts," said Nechayev on

.

"The allegations that Russia is somehow involved in this process," said the diplomat as misguided.

The case shakes German-Russian relations.

Is the Baltic Sea Pipeline Nordstream 2 * now failing because of the conflict?

Poison attack on Kremlin critics: NATO convenes an unscheduled meeting on the Navalny case

Update September 3, 20:30:

The

advises on Friday at a special meeting of the North Atlantic Council about the case of the poisoned Kremlin critic

.

A NATO spokeswoman announced on Thursday in Brussels.

Initially, NATO had announced a meeting at ambassador level without giving any details on the agenda.

Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wants to appear in front of the press after the deliberations (around 12.30 p.m.).

The case of the

sparked a widespread debate about how to deal with Russia.

The federal government announced on Wednesday that Navalny had been “undoubtedly” poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.

The Russian opposition member was flown from Russia to Berlin for medical treatment on August 22nd with symptoms of poisoning.

condemned the "attempted poisoning" and announced that

an "appropriate" reaction would be decided

together with the

and NATO.

Alleged Lukashenko evidence: Poison attack on Navalny faked by the West - telephone call intercepted?

Update from September 3, 4.15 p.m.:

The Belarusian President

says he

has evidence that the poison attack on the Russian Kremlin critic

was faked by the West.

Lukashenko said on Thursday at a televised meeting with Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in

his secret services

intercepted

a phone call between

and

, which clearly shows this

.

This should prevent Moscow from intervening in

.

"There was no poisoning of

," Lukashenko said.

"They did it - I quote - to prevent (Russian President Vladimir) Putin from sticking his nose into Belarus' affairs." He did not give any further details, but announced that a transcript of the taped phone call would be available to the Russian secret services deliver.

Lukashenko

has been facing increasing pressure since the controversial presidential election on August 9th.

Tens of thousands of Belarusians have been taking to the streets for weeks against the president, who has ruled for 26 years, accusing him of

and calling for new elections.

Putin had promised Lukashenko military support last week if the situation worsened.

NATO called on

not to interfere in the affairs of the neighboring country.

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

Update from September 3, 3:18 p.m.:

Federal Defense Minister

sharply attacked

the Russian leadership around President

after the poison attack on the Kremlin critic

.

"We want good relations with the Russian people, but we have to see the

what it is - an aggressive regime that tries without scruples to enforce its interests by means of violence and repeatedly violates the international rules of conduct," said they of the "

".

"The

fits in with the behavior that we know from

and his regime," said

.

Again and again there is news that Russia is deliberately

violating

the

the

.

“Sweden reports on Russian submarines near Swedish islands.

We know the violent crackdown by Russia in Ukraine. ”The CDU chairwoman said that it is well known that the Russian leadership is eliminating critics at home and abroad.

This has now been confirmed by the

and has once again become visible to everyone.

Navalny case: Kramp-Karrenbauer sharply criticizes Russia

Kramp-Karrenbauer described

as "proof that

are used

in Russia against people who stand up for their democratic rights and criticize the incumbent president,

namely substances that are banned worldwide".

The leadership in Moscow is "on the same level with those who have used chemical warfare agents against their own civilian population in Syria in the past," she said, referring to the Syrian ruler

.

Update from September 3, 12:53 p.m

.: "There is no reason to blame the Russian state," said

Dmitri Peskov in the Navalny

to journalists in Moscow.

He warned the

to rush to conclusions and

.

Despite the apparently

the Russian opposition politician

*

, the

warned against a quick

the German-Russian gas pipeline

.

"I am skeptical that we should question a project of this magnitude in the current phase of our findings," said Kubicki, who is also

Vice-

, on

on Thursday

.

Depending on the development, it could be that the construction will not be completed.

+

The FDP vice-chairman Wolfgang Kubicki (archive photo) gave an interview to “Deutschlandfunk” on the case of the Kremlin critic Andrej Navalny.

© Patrick Pleul / ZB / dpa

Attempted poisoning of Kremlin critic Navalny: Kubicki

Kubicki believes it is possible that the crime was carried out without the Kremlin being involved.

He made it

clear

on

that he “does not want to believe that (President)

or the government in general is behind this attack” and said: “There are also forces in the Russian administration, some of which have a

.”

The Russian government must now

clarify

the

and bring those responsible to

, Kubicki continued.

“My hope is that Putin himself will document that it did not happen at his behest, that it did not happen under his aegis.

Should it be otherwise, should we not get any reasonable explanations from Russia, we

will experience

an

between Germany and Russia over

the next few weeks, months and years

. ”Should President Putin or the Kremlin themselves be behind the act, there must be

sanctions.

"If we do not get any reasonable explanations from Russia, we will experience an ice age between Germany and Russia in the next weeks, months and years," emphasizes Wolfgang Kubicki (@fdp) on Deutschlandfunk.

- Deutschlandfunk (@DLF) September 3, 2020

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

Update from September 3, 10.15 a.m.:

The day before, Chancellor Angela

had poisoned

critic Alexey

condemned and admonished in the direction of

, 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:

Latest news on Navalny poisoning: Russia accuses employees of the Berlin Charité

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”.

+

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.

pic.twitter.com/Tu5LKI4Caf

- 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".

The 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."

+

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.

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

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.

+

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?

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