Intelligence agencies say deadly toxin in skin of Ecuador dart frogs found in Navalny’s body and highly likely resulted in his death
Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader, was killed by dart frog poison administered by the Russian state two years ago, a multi-intelligence agency inquiry has found, according to a statement released by five countries, the UK, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands.
The US was not one of the intelligence agencies making the claim.
Navalny died in a remote Arctic penal colony where he was serving a 19-year sentence. Samples from his body were secured before his burial and sent to the laboratories of two countries.
The UK, describing the poisoning as barbaric, said it would be reporting Russia to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, as a flagrant violation by Russia of the chemical weapons convention (CWC).
Wow. I’m surprised they didn’t just starve and beat him to death.
I wonder if the gaurds were somewhat friendly with Navalny and/or aligned with his cause?
It takes most of the guards liking him enough for him not to be beaten, but it only takes one guard who hated him to poison him.
Guards in Russia don’t have access to South American poison dart frogs any more than you do. His murder was not the decision of a guard.
Or somebody just following orders
Of the unthinking obedience of his captors, he ominously told another friend, media entrepreneur Ilia Krasilshchik: “If they’re told to feed you caviar tomorrow, they’ll feed you caviar. If they’re told to strangle you in your cell, they’ll strangle you.”