According to government spokesman Steffen Seibert, Germany has asked France and Sweden, as other European partners, to independently examine the German evidence. “The results of this review by special laboratories in France and Sweden are now here and confirm the German evidence,” said Seibert.
Earlier, a German military laboratory confirmed the presence of a novelty in samples from a patient being treated at the Charité clinic in Berlin. He was transferred to Berlin in a coma a few days after he collapsed during a flight from Siberia to Moscow on August 20 and was hospitalized in Omsk.
The government announced the findings of the laboratories after the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was involved in the investigation of the case, the DPA agency writes today. A German government spokesman Seibert said today that the OPCW also received samples, which it had tested in its reference laboratories.
“Independently of the OPCW’s ongoing research, three laboratories have now independently provided evidence that the cause of Mr. Navalny’s poisoning was nerve gas from a group of newcomers,” Seibert said.
