Putin critic Alexei Navalny ‘will survive’ suspected poisoning, under guard in German hospital
- He will be ‘incapacitated for months’, says Cinema for Peace Foundation founder Jaka Bizilj, whose group flew Navalny to Germany for treatment
- Germany said it was likely he was poisoned, and has placed him under guard in a Berlin hospital. Lab tests are still pending
Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who fell gravely ill on Thursday after what his allies believe was a poisoning, will survive, the founder of the activist group that sent the air ambulance to fly him to Germany, told a newspaper.
“Navalny will survive poison attack, but be incapacitated for months as a politician,” Jaka Bizilj, founder of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, told mass tabloid Bild.
Navalny, a long-time opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin and campaigner against corruption, was flown on Saturday for treatment in Germany.
Navalny, 44, was in an induced coma when he was evacuated from the Siberian city of Omsk, but there has been no word yet from the Charite hospital in Berlin on his condition.
On Monday, Germany said it had placed him under guard after determining that he had most likely been poisoned.