Important visit to Berlin: Kremlin critic Navalny secretly welcomes the head of state to his bed

The Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was poisoned at the end of August, that much is certain.

At his sickbed he received a secret visitor - a symbolic gesture that is also supposed to point towards Moscow.

• The

  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny

  was poisoned in late August.

• A medical transport plane brought the comatose

  Kremlin critic from Omsk to the Berlin Charité

  .

• From the

  coma

  awakening, received

  Navalny

  bedside apparently in a "secret operation" Visit of

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU).

Berlin - The story of

could already flicker on the big screen in a few years - it has what it takes to be a thriller: The

collapsed in the middle of the

on a plane bound for

and was taken

to a hospital

with

.

Attempted murder was quickly mentioned.

family feared for his life, as it was

not the first time

that the

been the victim of an attack.

Shortly afterwards,

according to media reports

,

the

a “state guest”.

She is said to

have personally campaigned

for his export from

and the transport of the seriously ill to the

.

denied this though, yet,

was willing to possibly poisoned

at the request of his family and for

to stay in

to enable.

Germany granted refuge to Navalny and his family

With an unusual gesture, the

once again

emphasized

the

solidarity

with

.

After it became known that the

actually been administered the

,

in

in a

for weeks

and was given artificial respiration.

For a long time it was not clear whether he

would recover

from the

, but the

is now

on the mend.

In a "top secret operation"

is said to have

even

visited

him

at the bedside in the

.

Der Spiegel am Sonntag reports on this exclusively and evaluates

as "a sign of how much the Chancellor is committed to

and is not ready to let the case rest".

This personal visit to the hospital bed was a "cue for the

that

not give in in the case and will find out the real background".

Video: Angela Merkel visited Kremlin critic Navalny in the hospital

After the public announcement of the high visit, thank

now on

at Chancellor Angela Merkel * "I am Chancellor Merkel very grateful that she visited me in the hospital," writes

- and not referred to the meeting as "secret" , but "privately", then Merkel also talked to his family.

Встреча была, но не стоит называть ее «секретной».

Скорее, частная встреча и разговор с семьей.

Я очень признателен канцлеру Меркель за то, что она навестила меня в больнице https://t.co/8d8vnEe23z

- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) September 28, 2020

Merkel symbolically stands behind Russian opposition leaders

The

to

deny that it was

involved in the

.

To date, Russian state media have reported partly absurd news and theories about the

on the opposition leader.

One of them said, for example, that

was not poisoned on Russian but German soil: “Before the patient was

brought

to

in

accordance with all international standards

, a whole complex of analyzes was carried out in our country that

identify

. "

But the transport plane that

in a

from the

to Berlin at the

probably saved the 44-year-old's life.

Last Wednesday,

even able to leave the hospital after weeks of fighting for his life, but he is still receiving medical treatment - it cannot currently be ruled out that the

could trigger

in him.

At least one month needs

yet to recover.

Like the

reported would

then return to Russia.

“The patient's state of health has improved to such an extent that the acute medical treatment could be ended.

Alexei Navalny was treated in the Charité for a total of 32 days, of which 24 days in an intensive care unit.

The attending physicians consider a full recovery possible based on the previous course and the current condition of the patient "

Official communication from Alexej Navalny's wife Julia

As

further reports, the

is still informed on a daily basis about

, because the case continues to have great political implications: When a

laboratory

evaluated

blood and urine samples, the

already

speaking

with astonishment clarity of an "unambiguous" result. special laboratories in

witnessed the detection of

also in the body of the Kremlin critic. the German government condemns

in resolving the matter

so in the strongest terms.