After a day of wrangling, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni has been transferred to a hospital in Berlin. He will land there on Saturday morning and is still in a coma.
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‘Big, big thanks to everyone who supported us. The fight for Alexei’s life and health is only now starting and there is still a whole mountain ahead of us, but this is the first step, ” tweeted Navalni spokeswoman Kira Yarmish, when the Russian opposition leader was in the Saturday morning around 4 a.m. plane was lifted with a lift. His wife, Yulia Navalnija, was allowed to fly along.
For a moment it seemed as if Navalni, who was deliberately poisoned according to his entourage, would not be flown to Germany. Russian doctors at Omsk hospital reported on Friday that his condition was insufficiently stable for transport and that, moreover, “no trace of poison was found in the blood or urine.” The chief doctor spoke of ‘a defect in the metabolism’.
His wife Yulia was initially not allowed to speak to the German doctors, who had meanwhile landed in Omsk by medical plane. After much discussion, the Russian doctors, flanked by guards and police officers – in civilian clothes or otherwise – who were massively present in and around the building, nevertheless agreed to Navalni’s departure for Berlin. The Kremlin critic will be treated in the renowned Charité hospital, the largest university clinic in Europe.
The 44-year-old Kremlin critic is still in an artificial coma and on breathing equipment. He became unconscious on a flight from Tomsk to Moscow on Thursday. His entourage is convinced that he was poisoned by a cup of black tea, which he drank just before his flight.
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