Five European nations: «Navalny poisoned by Russia with a uncommon toxin» | EUROtoday

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The Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalnywho died in a jail camp two years in the past, was murdered by the Russian state with a “rare toxin”: the governments of Germania, France, Great Britain, Sweden e Netherlands in a joint assertion on the sidelines of the Munich Conference. “We know that the Russian state used this lethal toxin to target Navalny, fearing his opposition,” the British Foreign Office stated. London reported Moscow to the world chemical weapons watchdog.

Lethal toxin derived from arrow frogs in Ecuador

The particulars of the poisoning come from the Foreign Office, the English Ministry of Foreign Affairs. According to the UK, Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, a deadly poisonous neurotoxin present in arrow frogs dwelling in Ecuador. Indigenous tribes in South America use the toxin in blowguns when looking. This poison is 200 occasions stronger than morphine. The findings of the investigation shall be submitted to the United Nations chemical weapons watchdog, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW).

The UK and its allies have labored “with steely determination” to ascertain what actually occurred to Navalny, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper stated.

The widow: “Not words but scientific proof”

Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian dissident, attended a press convention on the sidelines of a safety convention in Munich to announce the invention, flanked by international ministers from the UK, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands. The 4 nations, plus France, collaborated to ascertain the causes of the loss of life of Navalny, who was 47 years previous. ”It’s exhausting for me to seek out the best phrases,” Navalnya said. She was at the Munich Security Conference when the news of her husband’s death broke on February 16, 2024. ”It was the most horrible day of my life. I went on stage and said that my husband, Alexei Navalny, had been poisoned. What else could happen with Putin’s number one enemy in a Russian prison? But now I understand and know that it’s not just words. It’s a scientific proof,” he said.

Von der Leyen: cowardly act, Russia acts as a terrorist state

“Five European nations have decided that Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny. This was a cowardly act by a frightened chief. Russia has lengthy acted as a terrorist state, counting on terrorist strategies. Poisoning political opponents. Silencing journalists. Invading peaceable nations.” The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, wrote it in X. “This is the true face of Russia in the present day. We honor the reminiscence of Alexei Navalny and all these whom Putin’s Russia violently silenced over time,” he added.