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An investigation has been launched into the possible poisoning of an exiled Russian woman after a journalist and activist reported health problems following a dissident meeting in Berlin, German police said on Sunday.
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“An investigation has been launched,” said a Berlin police spokesman, confirming the report in Die Welt.
The Russian investigative media “Agentstvo” reported this week that two participants who took part in the meeting of Russian dissidents in Berlin on April 29-30 experienced health problems.
The meeting was organized by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
One attendee, identified as a journalist who had recently left Russia, experienced unspecified symptoms during the event and said they may have started earlier.
The journalist went to the “Charite” university hospital in Berlin, where opposition representative Alexei Navalny was treated after being poisoned in August 2020.
The other mentioned participant was Natalia Arno, director of the “Free Russia” foundation in the USA, where she has been living for 10 years.
Arno had attended a meeting of dissidents in Berlin before traveling to Prague, where she experienced symptoms and discovered her hotel room was open, Agentstvo reported.
When she left for the US the next day, she contacted the hospital there as well as the authorities.
Arno took to Facebook this week to discuss her problems of “sharp pain” and “numbness”, saying the first “strange symptoms” appeared before he arrived in Prague.
She said she still has symptoms but is feeling better.
In recent years, several poison attacks have been carried out against the Kremlin’s opponents abroad and in Russia.
Moscow denies that its secret services were to blame.
European laboratories confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent “Novichok” manufactured during the Soviet era.
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