An exiled Russian journalist and activist spoke of health issues after a meeting of dissidents in Berlin last April.
By Le Figaro with AFP
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An investigation has been opened in Germany on suspicion of poisoning following health problems mentioned by a journalist and a Russian activist in exile after a meeting of dissidents in Berlin, police told AFP on Sunday. “An investigation has been opened. Investigations are ongoinga spokesperson for the Berlin police told AFP, confirming information from the daily. Die Welt published on Saturday evening.
However, he did not want to give more details on the current procedure. The Russian investigative media Agentstvo published an investigation this week reporting on the health problems encountered by two participants in a meeting of Russian dissidents, on April 29 and 30, around the businessman who became an opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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Open hotel room
One participant, presented as a journalist who had recently left Russia, experienced unspecified symptoms during the event and said they may have started earlier. The media adds that the journalist went to the Berlin Charité hospital where the Russian opponent had been treated. Alexei Navalnyvictim of poisoning in August 2020.
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The second participant is Natalia Arno, director of the NGO Free Russia Foundation in the United States where she has lived for ten years after having had to leave Russia. Natalia Arno was in Berlin at the end of April, from where she traveled to Prague. It was there, reports Agentstvo, that she experienced symptoms and also discovered that her hotel room had been opened.
“Acute pains”
Leaving the next day for the United States, she contacted a hospital there as well as the authorities. Natalia Arno also published a message on Facebook this week in which she evokes the problems felt, “sharp pains” and one “numbness“, claiming that the first “strange symptomsappeared before his arrival in Prague. She adds that she still has symptoms but feels better.
In recent years, several poison attacks have been carried out abroad and in Russia against opponents of Russian power. Moscow denies any responsibility for its secret services. In the case of Alexei Navalny, European laboratories have confirmed the use of a Novichok-type poison, developed by the USSR for military purposes.