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After the poison attack in the Navalny case: Russia accuses Germany of delay - Maas threatens sanction

2020-09-06T12:45:18.593Z


Russia accuses Germany of blocking the investigation into the Navalny case. Foreign Minister Maas speaks about a possible stop of Nord Stream 2.


Russia accuses Germany of blocking the investigation into the Navalny case.

Foreign Minister Maas speaks about a possible stop of Nord Stream 2.

  • According to the federal government, the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent.

  • But Russia is now accusing Germany of delaying the investigation of the attack.

  • Foreign Minister Heiko Maas first brings a possible stop of the Nord Stream 2 project into play.

After the

Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny

suddenly fell into a coma on a flight in his home country on August 20, he was admitted to the

Berlin Charité

at the insistence of his family

.

A

Bundeswehr

laboratory was

able to detect a nerve agent in his blood.

The federal government regards the fact that Navalny was poisoned to be "beyond any doubt" proven.

"He should be silenced," said

Angela Merkel

.

According to the

Charité

,

Nawalny's

health is still serious.

The symptoms of the proven poisoning are declining, but artificial ventilation in the intensive care unit is still necessary.

Doctors expect the disease to last longer and cannot rule out long-term consequences of the severe poisoning.

The

federal government

calls on Russia to investigate the poison attack.

There are "very serious questions" in the room that only the Russian government can and must clarify, said

Merkel

* in an unusually clear statement.

It also expressed her personal concern.

The crime against

Navalny is

directed "against the fundamental values ​​and rights for which we stand," she said.

"The world will wait for answers."

The

Foreign Office

appointed the Russian Ambassador Sergei Netschajew to call on Russia to undertake a full investigation “with full transparency”.

Russia

must identify those responsible and hold them accountable, said

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

(SPD).

Navalny case: Greens and FDP bring the end of Nord Stream 2 into discussion

Numerous western states have

expelled

Russian diplomats

.

The Federal Government has spoken out in favor of coordinated action by the Western allies.

Merkel and Maas

said that an "appropriate" response had to be found.

How this turns out, "we will also decide in the light of how Russia behaves," said

Maas

.

Merkel also spoke about the matter

with

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier

- which makes it clear how important she is.

The federal government also informed the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OVCW) about the laboratory findings.

Russia

has also

acceded to the

Convention for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

.

Against the background of the Nawalny case, more and more politicians are calling for the

Nord Stream 2

project to be stopped

.

"The apparent attempted murder by the mafia-like structures of the Kremlin can no longer just worry us, it must have real consequences," said Green parliamentary leader

Katrin Göring-Eckardt

.

Merkel said on Tuesday that she wanted to complete the project.

FDP party leader

Christian Lindner

said in the

ARD “Morgenmagazin”

: “A regime that organizes poisonous murders * is not a partner for large cooperation projects - not even for pipeline projects.”

“So far, I have been in favor of continuing # Nordstream2 despite some concerns.

But after the poison attack on #Nawalny #Europe has to react.

I propose a two-year construction freeze, i.e. a #moratorium.

#Putin unfortunately only understands this language. ”(Tm) https://t.co/N9kdk81oKI

- Friedrich Merz (@_FriedrichMerz) September 4, 2020

The

Eastern Committee

of German Business spoke out against the cancellation of the

Nord Stream 2

natural gas project

.

"

To react to

the poisoning of

Navalny

with further economic sanctions, which would then again affect completely uninvolved companies and the Russian population, is wrong," said the chairman of the Eastern Committee, Oliver Hermes.

The head of the

Munich Security Conference

, Wolfgang Ischinger, also warned of a boycott of Russia.

“We need

Russia

in climate policy, in

Ukraine policy

, in many other areas.

We cannot now, so to speak, put up a wall between the West and Russia, ”he said in the

ARD“ Morgenmagazin ”

.

Nawalni case: Foreign Minister Maaß threatens for the first time with the end of Nord Stream 2

Even

Foreign Minister Heiko Maas

has for the first time about a possible stop of

Nord Stream 2

spoken.

"If there are

no contributions

on the

Russian side

in the next few days

, we will have to discuss an answer with our partners," writes

Maas on

Twitter.

The

picture on Sunday

said Maas: "In any case, I do not hope that the

Russians

will force us

to change

our stance on

Nord Stream 2.

" The Navalny * case is such a drastic violation of the international

chemical weapons agreement

that it is not without one noticeable reaction could remain.

If there are no contributions on the Russian side to investigate the attack on Mr #Nawalny in the next few days, we will have to discuss an answer with our partners.

The attack is a serious violation of international law.

https://t.co/OJrGJMH0U3

- Heiko Maas 🇪🇺 (@HeikoMaas) September 6, 2020

Maas

emphasized, however, that stopping the almost completed

pipeline

would also damage German and European companies: “Anyone who demands this must be aware of the consequences.

More than 100 companies from twelve European countries are involved

in

Nord Stream 2

, around half of them from Germany. ”Narrowing the debate to

Nord Stream 2

alone

would not do justice to the case, warned the

minister

.

Rather, he called on Russian President

Vladimir Putin

to clarify again: "We have high expectations of the Russian government that they will solve this serious crime,"

Maas

told

the

BamS

.

"If you have nothing to do with the attack, then it is in your own interest to prove it with facts,"

Maas

told

the BamS.

Navalny case: Russia accuses Germany of delaying the investigation

Russia

is now accusing Germany of

blocking

the investigation of the poison attack on

Nawanly

.

“Berlin is delaying the investigation that it itself is calling for.

On purpose? ”Said the spokeswoman for the

Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Sakharova

, on the Facebook online service on Sunday.

Because

Berlin did not respond

to a request for legal assistance from the

Russian public prosecutor's office

on August 27.

"Dear Mr.

Maas

, if the

German government

is serious about what you have said, it should be interested in responding to a request from the

Russian Public Prosecutor's Office

as soon as possible,

" the spokeswoman said, adding: "We haven't been so far sure that

Germany is

not playing a double game ”.

The Berlin judicial authorities had confirmed receipt of the request for legal assistance from the Russian judiciary on Friday.

*

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