Not looking very « accidental » now
As of last week, Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was still in a coma in a German hospital, with doctors there saying that they were pretty sure he’d been poisoned. At the time, their initial tests indicated that he’d been subjected to some form of unspecified cholinesterase inhibitors, commonly found in weed killers and similar chemical compounds. Today, however, the diagnosis has changed. Further testing reportedly indicates that Navalny was actually poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group. If that name sounds familiar, it should. We’ve seen it before, and it also involved some enemies of Vladimir Putin who “mysteriously” fell ill while in a foreign country. (CNN) Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was poisoned with a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group, the German government said Wednesday. Navalny, who fell ill on a flight from the Siberian city of Tomsk to Moscow last month, is being treated at a Berlin hospital. In a statement, German government spokesman Steffen Siebert said it was “startling” that “Alexei Navalny was the victim of an attack with a chemical nerve agent in Russia.” “The federal government condemns this attack in the strongest possible terms.
