Kremlin critic Alexei Navalni was closely monitored by the security service FSB, according to a Russian newspaper. Sources say that he cannot have been poisoned in the city and that it must have happened in the airport or on the plane. Navalni’s team had announced to communicate about his status on Sunday evening, but has postponed it.
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Navalni was flown from Siberia to Germany on Saturday, where he will be examined further at the Charité hospital in Berlin. According to his right-hand man Leonid Volkov, the tests and the cause will take ‘a few more days’.
Until now it was considered that when Navalni was poisoned, it was in the city of Tomsk. Sources of the FSB say, however Moskovsky Komsomolets that the politician was being monitored closely – including security cameras – and that he was not poisoned in the city. “The intelligence services believe that if he was poisoned, it happened on the plane or in the airport,” the newspaper writes.
To support their claims, the sources also shared things they knew through their surveillance. For example, it was stated how many rooms the employees of Navalni had booked and that Navalni decided not to sleep in the room that was reserved in his name.
Navalni’s team is not surprised they were followed. ‘That happens all the time. What does surprise us is that they proclaim it so publicly, as if it were none big deal is to follow civilians. ‘
The Russian doctors in Omsk for their part said that there are no traces of poisoning. They are more likely to assume a metabolic problem. The doctors in the Berlin hospital first want to examine Navalni thoroughly.
The forties had become unwell on a plane a few days ago. His environment assumes that he was poisoned. The tea he drank before the flight would have been poisoned. He is in a coma and is in ‘very critical but stable’ state.
Navalni employees have postponed the information moment announced for Sunday (6 p.m. Belgian time) about the possible poisoning of the opponent. No new time has yet been set. “We will tell you everything that is known so far about Alexei’s poisoning,” his spokesman had announced. The information will be there, the employees promise, but at a different time.
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