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France says Putin’s rival Navalny victim of ‘criminal act’, urges ‘transparent’ probe by Russia

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Western countries are voicing their worries after the alleged poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Siberia. France said on Tuesday the Russian opposition leader, who was transferred to a hospital in Germany, had been the victim of a “criminal act”. Like Paris, the US also urged Moscow to carry out a swift investigation.

FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was wrestled to the ground by police and dragged feet first into a patrol wagon during an anti government pProtest . President Putin , a former KGB chief reportedly does not tolerate any opposition Photo JAN 30, 2018: AP

“France expresses its profound concern over this criminal act perpetrated against a major figure in Russian political life,” the country’s Foreign ministry said in a statement.

It called on Russia to “carry out a swift and transparent investigation which will enable the circumstances in which this act was committed to be established … Those responsible for this act must be identified and brought to justice.”

Hours later, the US ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan also urged Russian authorities to launch an “immediate, comprehensive, and transparent investigation” that holds the parties behind this act responsible, his spokeswoman wrote on Twitter.

The 44-year-old Navalny, who is one of the fiercest critics of President Vladimir Putin, is being treated at Berlin’s Charité hospital after falling ill on a flight in Siberia last Thursday.

Navalny’s supporters claim he was poisoned by something in his cup of tea at a Siberian airport before taking a flight to Moscow, and point the finger at Putin.

The German clinic said Monday that clinical tests “indicate poisoning with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors”, substances that are used in nerve agents as well as some medicines and insecticides.

But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian medics had diagnosed Navalny’s condition in a similar way to German doctors but did not know what caused it.

France under President Emmanuel Macron has pursued a policy of dialogue with Russia, even on issues where they disagree, a position that has sometimes put him at odds with EU allies.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

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6 responses to “France says Putin’s rival Navalny victim of ‘criminal act’, urges ‘transparent’ probe by Russia”

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    Putin continues to run Russia as if he is still its KGB chief , using the same old communist dirty tricks , such as poisoning against his rivals . What a shitty president he is . He is making a mockery of democracy

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    Leonid Gozman about Kremlin possible explanations

    “I’m worried, comrades. You can’t sell an elephant with such a shitty creativity. Well, they found out in Charite that Navalny was poisoned. Why didn’t your officers, sent to the propaganda front, prepare for such an inevitable event? Only the unfortunate Omsk doctors are nodding that there was nothing, they say, “- writes the politician and public figure on his Facebook page.

    “It’s impossible, comrades, it’s irresponsible and not patriotic. There are many normal explanations. They contradict each other, but the Boeing versions also refuted one another, and this did not bother anyone.

    The most obvious thing: he was poisoned by the Germans on the plane on the orders of the Americans. Options: by order of the Ukrainians or his associates, who fought over American grants. With this option, the range of defeat is maximally expanded – the Germans, and Ukrainians, and Americans, and our fifth column, the true face of which has finally become clear to everyone, are already to blame.

    I cannot help but notice that the role of Ukraine is not sufficiently covered. It is clear that among those with whom Navalny met in Tomsk, there was at least one ethnic Ukrainian. Isn’t that enough for you? This is the topic that needs to be developed.

    And further. Independence Day was celebrated in Ukraine on August 24 – a tragic date, of course – ask any Ukrainian who speaks on our television. Isn’t it clear that the SBU (on the orders of the Americans) wanted to make a gift to the so-called President Zelensky for the holiday – to frame Putin. Everybody specially calculated that Charité’s announcement would be on this day, so that on this very day the world would once again groundlessly accuse our president of murders or complicity in them.

    By the way, it is easy to prove the conspiracy of the Ukrainians. It is necessary to show a portrait of the head of the SBU, then a map of Navalny’s movements in the last couple of days before the assassination attempt (this is about nothing, but the public perceives the maps well), and then, speaking of Charité, give footage of the Nazi chronicle.

    And why is it not given a principled assessment of the fact that Navalny was sent to Germany against the will of his family and is now being held in Berlin by force? It is no coincidence that the clinic is surrounded by NATO troops (some of them have now been removed for an attack on Belarus, but there are still many left). And in order for people to believe in our ultimate victory, we must remind that it was from Charite that Stirlitz brought our radio operator Kat. So everything is still ahead, NATO gentlemen!

    In this difficult time, our people have the right to expect from the Chekists and propagandists a more active position in protecting the Fatherland from dirty slander. And what they poisoned is our internal affair. We are a sovereign country and on our territory we do whatever we deem necessary. To a stranger too. And we won’t let anyone teach us! “

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