BERLIN — German doctors treating Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot, said Tuesday that claims he was poisoned are “highly plausible” but stressed they can’t say how this might have occurred or who was responsible. ADVERTISEMENTVerzilov’s symptoms, together with information received from relatives and the Moscow hospital he was admitted to last week, “make it highly plausible that a poisoning took place,” Eckardt said. He said Charite doctors have found “no evidence whatsoever that there would be another explanation for his condition.”Verzilov and other members of the Pussy Riot group served 15-day jail sentences for disrupting July’s World Cup final to protest excessive Russian police powers. Russian doctors suspected possible poisoning and treated him accordingly, emptying his stomach and performing a dialysis, said Eckardt. While doctors in Berlin haven’t yet determined what was responsible for the poisoning, they said it could have resulted from various substances including high doses of some pharmaceuticals and plants that contain particular toxins.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 18, 2018 13:41 UTC