German doctors say Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned

Source: Politico | August 24, 2020 | Miles Herszenhorn

‘The poisoning of Navalny is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact,’ says spokesperson for anti-Putin activist.

Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition leader and prominent Kremlin critic, was poisoned, according to a statement from a hospital in Berlin on Monday.

“The specific substance is not yet known,” the Charité hospital said, but it is thought to be a cholinesterase inhibitor — a group that affects the central nervous system, and includes nerve agents and pesticides. Navalny “is in an intensive care unit and is still in a coma,” the statement added, “but there is currently no acute danger to his life.”

Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh wrote in a tweet, “The poisoning of Navalny is no longer a hypothesis, but a fact.”

Navalny has been in a medically-induced coma since Thursday, when he fell ill on a flight to Moscow. In a video recorded by a fellow passenger, Navalny could be heard moaning in pain. The flight made an emergency landing in Omsk where Navalny was rushed to a hospital.

Doctors from the Omsk hospital said he had not been poisoned but Navalny’s associates accused the Omsk doctors of trying to cover up the investigation into the cause of his illness.

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