Heiko Maas
Only Russian law enforcement officers are responsible for the investigation of Alexei Navalny's case, everything necessary for this is in Russia. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas stated this in an interview with RIA Novosti.
“If an incident like the assassination attempt on Alexei Navalny takes place in Siberia, and if it was directed against a Russian citizen, then only Russian law enforcement agencies can and should investigate it,” the agency quoted the head of the foreign policy department as saying.
Maas stressed that all traces, witnesses, evidence for the investigation and the first blood tests of Navalny are on the territory of Russia – he was transported to Germany two days after the incident.
Earlier on October 12, the foreign ministers of the EU countries made a decision on sanctions against Russia, which will be introduced due to the situation with Navalny. This was confirmed by Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign and Security Policy of the EU. At the same time, he did not specify which decision was made, but said that all the participants in the meeting approved it.
Navalny became ill on August 20 during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow. In the first two days, doctors from the Omsk hospital helped him. They also introduced him to an artificial coma. On August 22, the patient was sent to a clinic in Berlin, whose doctors announced the discovery of traces of a substance from the Novichok group in Navalny's body.
