A month before his arrest, Navalny was interviewed by a European elected official. In the interview, published by Libération and LCI, he discusses the attempted poisoning of which he was the victim.
“If they killed me, it wouldn’t change anything’: a posthumous interview with Navalny made public. On August 20, 2020, while campaigning for local and regional elections, Alexei Navalny fell ill on board the plane bringing him back from Siberia to Moscow.