Russian doctors from the hospital in Omsk (Western Siberia), where the opponent Alexeï Navalny was admitted before being transferred to Berlin after a standoff, assured on Monday that they had not suffered "any external pressure or official interference.
“We didn't agree on the diagnosis with anyone. No pressure has been exerted on us from outside, from doctors or other forces, ”said Alexander Murakhovsky, chief medical officer of the Omsk hospital, during a broadcast press conference. online. “With great efforts, we saved his life,” he said.
A deliberate ignition delay?
The initial refusal to transfer Alexei Navalny abroad was denounced by his allies as a "political decision" which "threatened the life" of the opponent. His wife, Yulia Navalnaïa, had said that she "did not trust" this public hospital. She had claimed to have been prevented from seeing her husband at first and then from speaking to German doctors.
Some supporters of the Kremlin's No.1 opponent suspect that the transfer was delayed so that the poison he allegedly ingested became more difficult to detect. Anatoly Kalinichenko, the deputy director of the hospital, for his part indicated that according to two laboratories, in Omsk and Moscow "no substance that can be considered as poison (...) has been identified" in the body of the patient.
Main opponent of the Kremlin
"It was embarrassing that world-renowned journalists and doctors allowed themselves to comment without having any information," he regretted, claiming to have received "several dozen threats" to his address and that of his family.
Main opponent of the Kremlin, whose publications denouncing the corruption of Russian elites are widely shared on social networks, Alexeï Navalny, 44, was hospitalized Thursday in Omsk, in a coma, placed in intensive care and connected to an artificial ventilator, after being unwell on an airplane. His relatives ensure that it is an "intentional poisoning".
He was evacuated Saturday morning to Berlin in a private jet chartered by a German NGO, after a day of tug-of-war between Mr. Navalny's family and Russian doctors, who initially claimed that his condition was too unstable, before giving the green light. The opponent is currently being treated at the Charité hospital, one of the most famous in Europe.
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