French police are probing attainable poisoning of Russian journalist who denounced Ukraine warfare on TV
PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the war in Ukraine on dwell TV.
Marina Ovsyannikova known as emergency companies and was hospitalized after all of a sudden falling sick as she left her Paris residence and mentioned she suspected she was poisoned, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
Police have been analyzing her residence and an investigation was underway, the prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
Media watchdog Reporters With out Borders, which helped Ovsyannikova escape Russia and settle in France, mentioned its crew has been ‘’at her aspect’’ since she sought medical consideration. The group, identified additionally by its French acronym RSF, didn’t have additional details about what occurred.
Ovsyannikova, who labored at Russian state tv Channel One, drew worldwide consideration in March 2022 after showing behind the anchor of a night information broadcast with an indication that mentioned, “Cease the warfare, don’t imagine the propaganda, they’re mendacity to you right here.”
She was charged with disparaging the Russian navy and fined 30,000 rubles ($270 on the time). She later staged a protest close to the Kremlin in July 2022, was detained and positioned underneath home arrest earlier than escaping to France along with her daughter.
Earlier this month, a Moscow court docket sentenced her to eight 1/2 years in jail in absentia for spreading false details about the Russian military. It was the newest instance of a Russian crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Russia invaded Ukraine practically 20 months in the past. The size of the crackdown has been unprecedented in post-Soviet Russia.
