WORLD NEWS | Berlin police investigate reports of Russian exiles falling ill

BERLIN, May 21 (AP) – German police are investigating reports that at least two Russian exiles fell ill while attending a meeting with a Russian opposition figure in Berlin last month.

Berlin police confirmed their investigation in an emailed response to inquiries from The Associated Press, but provided no details.

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The investigation was conducted by the same police department that deals with politically motivated crimes.

Russian media outlet Agentstvo reported that two participants either before or after a meeting organized by Russian opposition figure Mikhail Khodorkovsky on April 29-30 A health problem arises.

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Natalia Arno, head of the US-based Free Russia Foundation, said in a May 16 Facebook post that she had traveled to two European cities before returning to the US and woke up with severe pain and strange symptoms.

Arnault said in the post that there were suspicions that she had been poisoned, possibly by a nerve agent.

In the second case, Agentstvo reported that a journalist it did not identify may have developed symptoms prior to the meeting organized by Khodorkovsky.

The German “Welt am Sonntag” first reported the investigation by the German police. (Associated Press)

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