Navalny Poisoning: Test Results from French, Swedish Labs confirms poison to be Novichok

Test results from specialized labs in France and Sweden have independently confirmed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a Soviet-style nerve agent Novichok, German government said Monday.
Military doctors at Berlin’s Charite hospital to which the “Kremlin” critic was evacuated after taking ill on a flight over Siberia last month, were the first to say he had been poisoned with Novichok.

The 44-year-old had been in an induced coma since he was flown to Germany on Aug. 22 for treatment two days after he became sick on a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow.
Navalny woke from coma last week and is now able to speak. Aides believe he sipped tea laced with poison at the airport, and his family has always pointed the finger at the Kremlin.
German chemical weapons experts have said tests proved “without a doubt” that Navalny was poisoned with Novichok. Government spokesman Steffen Seibert said samples taken from Navalny had also been sent to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague for tests in their labs.

Germany had asked France and Sweden for an “independent review” of the German findings using new samples from the opposition leader.
Moscow has however insisted it has seen no evidence that Navalny was poisoned. Kremlin has prodded Germany to share the evidence that led it to conclude “without a doubt” that Navalny was poisoned with the soviet era nerve agent.