The German government has said specialist laboratories in France and Sweden have confirmed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the Soviet-era nerve agent Novichok. He said Germany has asked France and Sweden for an “independent review” of its findings using new samples from Mr Navalny. Russian authorities have prodded Germany to share the evidence that led it to conclude “without doubt” that Mr Navalny was poisoned with a military nerve agent from the Novichok group. Mr Seibert would not identify the specialist French and Swedish labs at a regular government news conference. “There are samples from Mr Navalny on the Russian side.”She added Russia has “all the information and all the samples it needs for an analysis”.

Source: Irish Independent September 14, 2020 08:38 UTC