Stricken Kremlin critic Navalny en route to Germany
A plane carrying Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny took off from the Russian city of Omsk early on Saturday headed for Germany, his spokeswoman said on Twitter.
Gravely ill Kremlin critic Navalny was meant to be airlifted to Berlin to receive medical care after the opposition politician’s allies accused the Russian authorities of trying to stop his evacuation.
A plane carrying Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny took off from the Russian city of Omsk early on Saturday headed for Germany, his spokeswoman said on Twitter.
Gravely ill Kremlin critic Navalny was meant to be airlifted to Berlin to receive medical care after the opposition politician’s allies accused the Russian authorities of trying to stop his evacuation.
Navalny fell ill earlier this week while flying back to Moscow from the Siberian city of Tomsk, where he had met allies ahead of regional elections next month. He was taken on a stretcher, motionless, from the plane and rushed to hospital after it made an emergency landing in Omsk.
Officials from the Health Ministry of a Siberian region where of Navalny was being treated said on Friday that a police laboratory had found a chemical substance of an industrial nature on his hair and hands.
Alexander Murakhovsky, the head doctor at the hospital treating Navalny in the city of Omsk, said traces of industrial chemical substances had been found on the 44-year-old’s clothes and fingers.
Navalny, a fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin, is in a serious condition after drinking tea on Thursday morning that his allies believe was laced with poison.
- Reuters
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