German police are investigating after Vladimir Kara-Murza’s mother arrived at the hospital due to an unknown illness

Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza said that his mother was taken to a hospital in Berlin on Tuesday, while German police said they were investigating a case of attempted murder.

Kara-Murza said suspicions that his mother, a German-Russian citizen, had been poisoned had not yet been confirmed.

Police said toxicology test results are not expected until Wednesday.

“My mother is already in a Berlin hospital, but fortunately the suspicions of poisoning or heart attack have not been confirmed,” Kara-Murza wrote on social media. “Doctors are continuing to evaluate.”

He was complaining of symptoms of poisoning

Police said the woman, who was not named, was taken to the isolation ward at Charité Hospital. She had gone to the hospital in the afternoon complaining of symptoms of poisoning.

Police spokeswoman Jane Berndt said: “We are currently looking into whether there is any evidence of a political motive.” She added that the victim’s apartment in the western Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf area was being searched for evidence.

Kara-Murza has been a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his all-out invasion of Ukraine One of more than 20 inmates Which Russia, Belarus and the West exchanged in August, in the largest prisoner exchange since the Cold War.

Among those who were exchanged for them was the Russian assassin Vadim Krasikov. He was convicted of murder in 2019 In a 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 after what she thought was a poison attack. The police opened an investigation into an attempted murder case.