Navalny: Five European countries say he “died from arrow poison toxin poisoning”

London (United Kingdom), 14 February (LaPresse/AP) – Five European countries claim that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a lethal toxin. The foreign ministries of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said that analysis of samples taken from Navalny, who died two years ago, ‘definitively confirmed the presence of epibatidine’. This is a toxin found in poison dart frogs in South America. The five countries stated that ‘only the Russian state had the means, motive and contempt for international law’ to carry out the act. Navalny, who had waged a battle against official corruption and organised massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in a penal colony in Siberia in February 2024. Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, said last year that two independent laboratories had found traces of poisoning shortly before his death. She has repeatedly accused Putin of Navalny’s death, a charge that Moscow officials have denied.