Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, September 22 that the Russian authorities “do not deal with clothes”, which, according to blogger Alexei Navalny, was seized from him.
“You know, with all due respect to the patient, we do not deal with clothes. Not our profile, ”he said.
At the same time, Peskov added that the people accompanying the blogger to Germany took with them evidence important for the investigation.
Navalny felt unwell during the Tomsk-Moscow flight on 20 August. The plane urgently landed in Omsk, the blogger was taken to the ambulance hospital No. 1. At the Charite clinic in Berlin, the Russian was allegedly found to have signs of intoxication with a substance from the group of cholinesterase inhibitors.
On September 2, the German government announced that Navalny was allegedly poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. There was no evidence of this. Berlin does not respond to official requests from the Russian side, while demanding from Moscow some materials for an investigation.
On September 14, the Charité reported that the blogger’s health had improved. The next day, Navalny published his first post on Instagram after coming out of a coma, and on September 17, a blog entry appeared on his blog that poison was allegedly found in a bottle of water from which he drank in a Tomsk hotel.
The blogger said that when he felt bad, the employees of the Anti-Corruption Foundation called a lawyer and together with him began to collect “evidence” in Navalny’s hotel room. It is alleged that on one of the bottles, experts from Germany, two weeks after the incident, allegedly found traces of the Novichok poisonous substance. At the same time, neither the blogger nor his entourage explained how the bottle got into the hands of foreign experts.