All laboratories, including the Swedish, French and the laboratory of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), took samples from Alexei Navalny on their own. Additional analyzes taken from a Russian patient became known from the representative of the German Foreign Ministry Maria Adebar, reports TASS.
“The OPCW itself took samples from Navalny and will launch the procedure in accordance with paragraph VIII 38 (e) of the Chemical Weapons Convention,” said a spokesman for Berlin. She added that laboratories in Sweden and France similarly performed their own analyzes.
Earlier it was reported that two independent laboratories in France and Sweden re-analyzed the samples of Alexei Navalny and confirmed the presence of a toxic substance of the Novichok group there. After that, Germany again called on Russia to provide explanations about the events around Navalny.
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.
On September 2, the German government announced that military toxicologists had found traces of a substance from the Novichok group in Navalny's body and called on the Russian government to respond to this information. Russian doctors say that no poisons were found in the patient's analyzes. On September 10, it became known that Navalny had completely recovered.
