A German-Russian citizen was placed in an isolation room at a Berlin hospital today after she told medical staff that she suspected she had been poisoned, the Associated Press reported, BTA reported.
Berlin police wrote on the social network "Ex" that the woman had been placed in a special ward at a Berlin hospital after she expressed her suspicions to staff. Blood tests are reportedly being conducted for "all types of poisonous substances".
She has been admitted to the "Charite" hospital - the same one where the now-deceased Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny was treated after an alleged attempt to poison him with "Novichok".
The police said they were investigating a possible assassination attempt and that all necessary measures were being taken to identify possible suspects.
According to the police, the woman called an ambulance herself after feeling unwell, DPA reported. The police said she had German and Russian citizenship, but gave no further details about her identity.
According to the German publication "Spiegel", the woman is a relative of Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, a leading figure in the opposition to President Vladimir Putin. The weekly reported that initial tests had not revealed any evidence of poisoning with chemical or biological substances, and further tests were pending.
Vladimir Kara-Murza, for his part, denied that his mother, who is in a Berlin hospital, had been poisoned. "Mom is indeed in a Berlin hospital, but the suspicions of poisoning and a heart attack, thank God, were not confirmed. Doctors are continuing to examine her", Kara-Murza wrote on "Telegram".
In recent years, several attacks with poisonous substances have been carried out abroad and in Russia against opponents of the government. Moscow denies any involvement of its secret services, notes Agence France-Presse.
Last year, German authorities received signals from a journalist and an exiled Russian activist who attended a meeting of Russian dissidents in Berlin and who suspect that they had been poisoned.