Two activists who attended a conference organized by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on April 29-30 later reported symptoms of poisoning, according to German newspaper Welt am Sonntag.
German police confirmed to Welt and AFP that an investigation is underway, but did not mention Russia’s alleged involvement in the two incidents.
The head of the Free Russia Foundation, Natalia Arno, identified herself as one of the victims of the alleged poisoning.
“There is a suspicion that during my recent trip to Europe I was poisoned, possibly with a neurotoxic agent, one (or more) Western intelligence services are investigating,” she wrote on Facebook.
Arno said he started having “strange symptoms” after smelling an unusual smell in his hotel room.
According to the Russian portal Agentstvo, another unidentified journalist had similar symptoms on the days of the conference and was treated at the Charité hospital in Berlin.
Moscow’s agents have a history of suspicions of poisoning critics of the regime, both in the country and abroad. The Russian GRU military intelligence service poisoned ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Novichok nerve agent in Salisbury, Britain, in 2018, according to British authorities.
Also, officials of the Russian FSB secret services would have been behind the poisoning of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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