On Monday, September 14, the Berlin hospital where Russian opposition leader Navalny is being treated announced that his health “is continuing to improve and he is able to get out of bed for the time being….
According to the Berlin hospital, “the patient is becoming more and more active and is now able to get out of bed for a short time…. . has been able to be taken off the ventilator completely,” but did not say whether Navalny would be free of the after-effects.
That same day, French and Swedish laboratories announced that Navalny had indeed been attacked with the nerve agent Novichok. A German military laboratory came to this conclusion on September 3. In order to strengthen the evidence that (Navalny) was exposed to this powerful nerve agent, Germany asked its European partners, France and Switzerland, to conduct an independent examination of the German evidence,” said German government spokesman Stefan Seibert. The results are already available and are consistent with the German findings. The use of Novichok is a serious violation of the 1993 Convention on the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and Berlin has asked the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OIAC) to participate in the analysis and validation of the incident at Navalny,” said Saipert. The OIAC has already taken samples from Navalny’s body for testing”. The Russian government, however, stressed that Navalny had no toxic agent in his body according to the Russian samples taken before his flight to Germany.
On February 14, French President Emmanuel Macron demanded that Putin “explain this ‘murder attempt’ immediately” and that “it is necessary for Russia to do so within the framework of a credible and transparent investigation. Putin denounced the accusations as “unsubstantiated and unfounded.
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