Germany reacted to media reports about a second attempt at “poisoning” Alexei Navalny, allegedly committed when he was in an artificial coma in Omsk before being sent to a German clinic. This was reported to “Lente.ru” in the German Cabinet.
“The federal government has taken note of these media reports and will no longer comment on them,” says a statement by German government spokesman Steffen Seibert, received by Lenta.ru in response to a request for comment.
Earlier, the British edition of The Times, citing sources in Western intelligence services, reported that they tried to poison Navalny twice. At the same time, like the first time, his life was saved thanks to the introduction of an antidote – atropine.
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, and in September he was taken out of the coma and discharged. German experts announced the poisoning of the oppositionist with a substance from the Novichok group. During the examination, Russian doctors did not find traces of poisons in the patient's body.
