PARIS (AP) — French prosecutors are investigating a suspected poisoning Thursday of a Russian journalist who fled after denouncing the struggle in Ukraine on dwell TV.
Marina Ovsyannikova referred to as emergency providers and was hospitalized after out of the blue falling unwell as she left her Paris house and mentioned she suspected she was poisoned, the Paris prosecutor’s workplace mentioned.
Police have been inspecting her house 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 facet’’ since she sought medical consideration. The group, recognized 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 struggle, don’t imagine the propaganda, they’re mendacity to you right here.”
She was charged with disparaging the Russian army 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 courtroom 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 almost 20 months in the past. The dimensions of the crackdown has been unprecedented in post-Soviet Russia.
