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).
It is not big news for most European news consumers. It’s documented proofs by independent laboratories that Navalny was killed in prison. It was obvious before, but now there is a tangible evidence.
For some people, it does matter. For people like me, who hold Russian citizenship, it’s one more in the long and documented list of murders by Putin and his cronies. I am not sure if anything like Nuremberg process would ever be carried out against the criminals, but it doesn’t mean that their deeds should be ignored or not documented. It’s a murder, and should be treated as such.
Dismissing the criminal deeds as not important because “they all are just evil and who cares” is not right. They are evil, but there are people who do care. No harm in this research.
It’s an important political murder with clear and documented traces.
Edit:typos…
No harm, definitely, and I’m a hundred percent with you in the hope for a prosecution, even if the chances look very grim for that to happen.
Documenting crimes is indeed useful, at least for history