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RFE/RL: Berlin hospital says ‘highly plausible’ that Russian activist was poisoned

Published Sept. 18, 2018. Updated Sept. 18 at 11:48 am

The CEO of Berlin's Charite Hospital Karl Max Einhaeupl (L) and leading doctor Kai-Uwe Eckardt address a press conference on September 18, 2018 in Berlin, on the health of Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian punk band Pussy Riot, who was flown to Germany Sunday after suspected poisoning. Pyotr Verzilov, suffered suspected poisoning by unknown substances but is now out of danger, the German doctors said.

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German doctors at the Berlin hospital where Russian activist Pyotr Verzilov is being treated say he was likely poisoned.

“The impression and the findings that we now have, as well as those provided by colleagues from Moscow, suggest that it was highly plausible that it was a case of poisoning,” Kai-Uwe Eckardt, a doctor at the Charite hospital in Berlin, told a news conference on September 18.