German police are investigating a possible case of poisoning of two exiled Russian journalists after attending an act of the Russian dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Berlin last April.
The two women reported symptoms of pain and numbness, as explained by the local Police, which has not provided more information in this regard.
The first outlet to report the incident was the newspaper ‘Welt am Sonntag’which collects information from the Russian portal agentstvo about the symptoms evidenced by one of the journalists who posted a message on Facebook.
After the conference, she felt “strange symptoms” such as “sharp pain” for which she said she believed she could have been poisoned with a nerve agent. Is about Natalia Arnodirector of the NGO Free Russia Foundation, based in the United States, where she has lived for 10 years after having to leave Russia.
Arno was in Berlin at the end of April before traveling to Prague, where the symptoms of malaise and discovered that his hotel room had been broken intoreported Agentstvo.
The next day he traveled to the United States, where he contacted a hospital and the authorities. On American soil, he reported what happened to the FBIand authorities opened an investigation and tested the suspected substance.
Arno discussed his problems – “sharp pain” and “numbness” – on Facebook this week, saying the first “strange symptoms” appeared before he arrived in Prague. He said that he was still having symptoms, but that he was feeling better.
“I didn’t think about the possibility of poisoning and I was sure I just needed to see a dentist urgently,” she wrote. She took the next plane back to the United States, and during the flight, the symptoms became “very strange, all over the body and with pronounced numbness.” He ended up in the emergency department, but tests showed that he was in good condition.
A second affected would have similar symptoms after attending a Khodorkovsky conference held on April 29 and 30. Subsequently, She was treated at the Berlin Charité Hospital.
In recent years, several cases of poisoning of Russian dissidents have been detected abroad and also in the country. One of the most notorious cases was that of the opponent Alexei Navalnytreated in Berlin and subsequently arrested upon his return to Russia in January 2021.
The Kremlin denied that its secret services were responsible for these poisoning cases. Nevertheless, European laboratories confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with Novichoka Soviet-made nerve agent.
The nerve agent was also used in a 2018 assassination attempt on the former double agent. Sergey Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury.
The Skripal case further aggravated already tense relations between London and Moscow after the death by radioactive poisoning in 2006 in the British capital of the former spy. Alexander Litvinenko.
With information from Europa Press and Reuters
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