[Russia] - Kremlin Critic Kara-Murza Denies Mother Was Poisoned in Germany

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Freed Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza on Tuesday rejected earlier reports that his mom, who was hospitalized in Berlin, had been
poisoned.Berlin authorities had said that a Russian-German woman was taken to health center which they were investigating on suspicion of
tried murder
A cops spokeswoman told AFP that the lady is a German-Russian dual resident who suspects that she has been poisoned and German media
determined her as a close relative of Kara-Murza
However in a statement on his Telegram channel Kara-Murza stated: Mum is certainly in the healthcare facility in Berlin, but the suspicions
of poisoning and heart attack have actually shown incorrect, thank God
Doctors are continuing to analyze her, he added.The Berlin cops spokesperson had told AFP that the ladys blood, clothes and house were
being inspected as part of the investigation.Kara-Murza himself made it through two poisoning attempts and was freed from prison in Russia
this summer as part of a prisoner swap with the West.Russia has actually been implicated in a string of poison attacks abroad in recent
years.In 2020, Germany said Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the nerve representative Novichok
He passed away in unclear situations in an Arctic jail nest in February.In 2018 former Russian mole Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter
were taken to health center in vital condition in the U.K.Police said they were also poisoned with Novichok.