BERLIN — German police are investigating stories that at the least two Russian exiles fell unwell across the time they attended a convention in Berlin final month linked to a Russian opposition determine.

Berlin police confirmed their investigation in an electronic mail responding to a question by The Associated Press, however wouldn’t give any particulars. The probe is being performed by a police unit that handles politically motivated crimes.

The Russian media outlet Agentstvo reported that two members in an April 29-30 convention organized by Russian opposition determine Mikhail Khodorkovsky skilled well being issues across the time of or after the occasion.

Natalia Arno, head of the U.S.-based Free Russia Foundation, stated in a May 16 Facebook submit that she awoke with acute ache and unusual signs throughout a visit to 2 European cities earlier than she returned to the United States. There is a few suspicion that she was poisoned, presumably by a nerve agent, Arno stated within the submit.

In a second case, Agentstvo reported {that a} journalist it didn’t determine might have developed signs earlier than the assembly organized by Khodorkovsky.

Germany’s Welt am Sonntag newspaper first reported on the investigation by German police.

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