German police announce they are investigating possible poisoning of two dissidents Russia following an anti-establishment meeting in Berlin in late April organized by Russian Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Police in Berlin told Reuters they launched an investigation after a report by the German newspaper Welt am Sonntag, citing the Russian opposition website Agency, that two men had symptoms of possible poisoning.

A Berlin police spokesman said the case had been transferred to the State Protection Agency, which is responsible for terrorism and political crimes.

The media add that after that, the person went to the Berlin Charité hospital, where Russian MP Alexei Navalny, who was poisoned in August 2020, was treated.

The second participant is Natalya Arno, director of the Free Russia Foundation NGO in the United States, where she has been living for ten years after being forced to flee Russia.

Arno then went to Prague for a series of meetings on the situation in Russia. There, according to the Agency, she developed symptoms, and it was also discovered that her hotel room had been broken into.

Departing for the US the next day, he contacted the local hospital as well as the authorities.

She posted a Facebook post this week describing the problems she felt, “great pain” and “numbness”, saying that the first “weird symptoms” appeared even before she arrived in Prague. He added that he still has symptoms but is feeling better.

Source: APE-MPE, AFP.