Putin Critic Navalny Releases “Evidence” Of Novichok Poisoning
Tyler Durden
Thu, 09/17/2020 – 14:25
A few days after sharing the first photo of himself and his family from his hospital bed in Germany, Alexei Navalny and his team are back in the headlines Thursday, proclaiming that they now have “evidence” that the Russian opposition politician was poisoned with Novichok.
As we’ve noted in the past, the notion that Novichok is a feared nerve agent routinely deployed in state craft is somewhat undermined by the fact that both Navalny and Sergei Skripal, the Russian double-agent whom Moscow handed over to Britain as part of a voluntary agreement, survived their alleged attacks.
A video posted by Navalny’s team on his Instagram page showed them searching Navalny’s room at the Xander Hotel in Tomsk on Aug. 20, an hour after they were informed about his illness.
Apparently, this is how Germany got the materials, which a military lab allegedly tested to confirm the presence of Novichok. Initially, Navalny’s team claimed he had been poisoned after drinking a cup of tea at the airport. But now it’s a water bottle from his hotel room. The story just keeps changing,
“It was decided to gather up everything that could even hypothetically be useful and hand it to the doctors in Germany. The fact that the case would not be investigated in Russia was quite obvious,” the post said.
It showed his team bagging several empty bottles of “Holy Spring” mineral water, among other items, while wearing protective gloves.
“Two weeks later, a German laboratory found traces of Novichok precisely on the bottle of water from the Tomsk hotel room,” the post said.
“And then more laboratories that took analyses from Alexei confirmed that that was what poisoned Navalny. Now we understand: it was done before he left his hotel room to go to the airport.”
One of Navalny’s team members bragged to Al Jazeera that the evidence was taken “right under the KGB’s nose”.
Vladimir Milov, a former deputy energy minister and an ally of Navalny, said his team had outplayed the FSB security police with their quick thinking: “They took the evidence from under their noses and shipped it out of the country.”
Watch the video below:
In case you missed it, the suspect water bottles are highlighted in the video with red circles.
International authorities have demanded an investigation into the alleged poisoning, while Russia has maintained its innocence. So far, Navalny’s second alleged poisoning by the Kremlin in just over a year hasn’t rated on the level with the attack on the Skripals, which led to tit-for-tat diplomat expulsions and a general rupture in international relations with Russia.
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