German police are investigating after Vladimir Kara-Murza’s mother was hospitalized with an unknown illness

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said his mother was in hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating an attempted murder.

Kara-Murza said that suspicions about the poisoning of her German-Russian mother have not been confirmed.

The results of toxicology tests are not expected until Wednesday, police said.

Kara-Murza wrote on the social network: “My mother is really in the hospital in Berlin, but thankfully the suspicions of poisoning or heart attack have not been confirmed.” “Doctors are continuing the examinations.”

He complained of symptoms of poisoning

Police said the woman, whose name they did not release, was transferred to the isolation wing of the Charite hospital. He complained of symptoms of poisoning and went to the hospital in the afternoon.

“We are currently investigating whether there was a political motive,” police spokeswoman Jane Berndt said. He added that the victim’s apartment in the western district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf is being searched for clues.

Kara-Murza, a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his large-scale invasion of Ukraine One of more than 20 prisoners Russia, Belarus and the West carried out the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War in August.

Among his replacements is Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov. He was convicted of murder in 2019 In the Berlin park of a Georgian citizen who was part of the Chechen independence movement.

Last year, Russian investigative journalist Elena Kostyuchenko fell ill on a train to Berlin in what she believed to be a poison attack. The police opened an investigation into the attempted murder.