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The spokeswoman for Russian opposition Alexei Navalny, Kira Iarmych , has confirmed that the air ambulance transporting him from Siberia has already landed in Germany. "The plane with Alexei has just landed in Berlin, " he said on Twitter .

The landing was scheduled to take place at the Schönefeld airport , in the southeast of the city, according to the website that tracks the movement of planes around the world in real time. However, he has finally made his way to another airport in the German capital, Tegel , and landed in the military zone where numerous ambulances were waiting for him, according to the Bild newspaper .

No explanation has been given for this sudden change.

Russian opponent Alexei Navalny, in a coma after being poisoned THE WORLD

An air ambulance chartered by a German NGO landed at Omsk airport on Friday morning. German doctors examined Navalni, 44, and ensured they could transfer him to Berlin for treatment there.

"On the runway, in addition to the Russian and German doctors, there were airport security agents, traffic and transport police, journalists from [the national channel] Russia 1 with a camera," the spokeswoman added. The other journalists have not been able to access the track.

"Intentional poisoning"

Alexei Navalny was traveling from Tomsk in Siberia to Moscow by plane when he passed out. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk. The opponent was admitted to the hospital in that city, in intensive care, and connected to an artificial respirator. He is currently in a coma.

His environment claims that he was the victim of "intentional poisoning" with "something mixed in his tea."

However, the Russian doctors assured that they did not detect "any poison" in Navalni's blood or urine, and stated that the hypothesis they favored was that of a "glycemic imbalance" caused by a drop in blood sugar. .

The regional Interior Ministry indicated that the police had taken a sample of an industrial chemical from the man and his luggage, but the doctors claimed that, in any case, this could not have caused him to pass out.

The private air ambulance arrived in Omsk on Friday morning, but Russian doctors initially refused to allow Navalny's transfer, saying his condition was too unstable.

Navalny's spokeswoman attributed the refusal to an attempt "to buy time and wait until the poison [was] no longer detectable in her body."

In the end, the hospital gave its authorization on Friday night, after German doctors examined the patient, that his wife Yulia Nvalanya asked President Vladimir Putin in a letter to authorize the evacuation and that the family of the opponent appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) .

The opposition is expected to enter the Charity Hospital in Berlin , where he also was treated another Russian opponent, Piotr Verzilov, who was transported there by the same NGO, Cinema for Peace . The latter, already cured, also reported having been poisoned.

Poisoning as a 'modus operandi'

Many Western countries and international organizations have expressed concern and demanded that the circumstances of the hospitalization be clarified.

Navalny, whose posts about the corruption of Russian elites are widely followed on social media, has already been the victim of several physical attacks. "The FBK [Anti-Corruption Fund] continues its work," Ivan Jdanov , director of this organization founded by Navalny , said on Twitter just before taking off .

Several adversaries to the Russian authorities have suffered poisonings in recent years, in Russia or abroad. The Russian authorities have always denied any responsibility.

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