DISINFO: Germany controls Alexei Navalny
SUMMARY
The scandal around the Russian blogger Alexei Navalny is totally a German creation. The Germans control Navalny. He says what they need, including to defend Nord Stream 2.
RESPONSE
Recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative portraying the poisoning of prominent Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny as staged and targeted against Russia. It also seeks to discredit Navalny by suggesting that the German authorities control him. Pro-Kremlin disinformation often targets Russian opposition figures accusing them of being agents of Western intelligence services.
A prominent Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny fell ill during a flight from Siberia to Moscow on the 20th of August. Initially hospitalised in Omsk, at the request of his family he was transferred to Charité hospital in Berlin.
At the request of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, a specialist Bundeswehr laboratory carried out toxicological tests on samples from Alexei Navalny. The results of these tests have revealed unequivocal proof of the presence of a chemical nerve agent from the Novichok group.
The European Union has condemned what seems to have been an attempt on Alexei Navalny's life and imposed sanctions on six senior Russian officials and a chemical research centre. The test results from the Charité – Universitätsmedizin hospital in Berlin, where he was treated, indicate that the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned during his stay in Siberia.
Read similar disinformation cases alleging that the Western intelligence agencies are working with Navalny, that West will falsely accuse Russia of poisoning Navalny, as with Skripal and Litvinenko, that if the victim does not die, it cannot be Novichok, that the Navalny poisoning could be a strategy of the West to introduce anti-Russian sanctions, that there is no evidence of Navalny poisoning, West wants to stop Nord Stream 2 and that another reason would be found for sanctions, if there had been no Navalny.