German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday that hospitalised Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny was “the victim of a crime.” She called on Moscow to “answer questions that only the Russian government can answer.”
Merkel was referring to tests carried out the by the Bundeswehr [German military] which found that the anti-corruption campaigner was “beyond doubt” poisoned with a ‘Novichok’ class chemical agent. Describing Navalny as “the leading opposition politician in Russia,” an assertion not borne out by Russian polling, she said somebody wanted to “silence” him.
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