• Navalny, police sources reveal: he was under surveillance during the trip to Siberia
  • Russia, the opponent Alexei Navalny hospitalized in Berlin
  • Russia, Navalny flown to Berlin. "It will be impossible to determine the poison used"
  • Navalny, Omsk doctors give the green light to the transfer
  • Navalny, "metabolic disorders and low blood sugar": the diagnosis of Russian doctors excludes poison

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August 24, 2020 No certainty yet. But for Berlin there is talk of "probability" of poisoning to justify the presence in Germany of the Russian opponent Alexei Navalny.

The German government believes it is "quite likely" that Navalny has been poisoned. Spokesman Steffen Seibert said this today in a statement to the press. "This is a patient who was probably the victim of an attack with poison", he said speaking of the Russian opponent who has been hospitalized in Berlin since last Saturday from where he was transferred from the hospital in Siberia where he was taken on Thursday. following suspected poisoning.

Seibert referred to the fact that Navalny was most likely poisoned to justify the security measures taken by the German police for his protection: Navalny is placed under the protection of the German Federal Anti-Crime BKA.

Seibert otherwise declines to comment on the opponent's conditions. It is only the doctors and Navalny's family who can provide the news on his health conditions and what may have happened, "he says." Our request is that there be full transparency. We await the findings of the doctors ", he added. 

Omsk doctors:" We saved his life "
The doctors of the Siberian hospital in Omsk who first treated Alexei Navalny claim to have saved his life. Reuters reports. . The Russian opponent felt ill on Thursday during a flight from Tomsk to Moscow and was rushed to hospital in Omsk where he remained in a coma for almost 48 hours before the doctors gave the go-ahead for his transfer to the Charite hospital in Berlin Navlany's collaborators are convinced that it was an attempted poisoning and accused the doctors of delaying his transfer to hide his traces.