Merkel visited poisoned Russian dissident Navalny in Berlin hospital
(dpa)
Berlin (dpa) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Russian dissident Alexei Navalny while he was recovering in a Berlin hospital after being poisoned with a nerve agent in Russia, Navalny said on Monday.
"I am very grateful to Chancellor Merkel for her visiting me in the hospital," Navalny said in a statement on Twitter. "There was a meeting, but it should not be called 'secret.' It was more like a private meeting and conversation with my family."
Navalny was discharged from Berlin's Charite hospital last week after more than a month of treatment. German, Swedish and French laboratories have determined that he had been poisoned with the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok. He had fallen ill while on a campaign trip in Siberia.
Novichok was also used in the near-fatal poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the southern English city of Salisbury two years ago.
Navalny was discharged from Berlin's Charite hospital last week after more than a month of treatment. German, Swedish and French laboratories have determined that he had been poisoned with the Soviet-developed nerve agent Novichok. He had fallen ill while on a campaign trip in Siberia.
Novichok was also used in the near-fatal poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the southern English city of Salisbury two years ago.
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