The Russian TV journalist Ovsyannikova became known because she held a protest sign against the war in Ukraine into the camera. In Paris, where she now lives, she suddenly feels sick on the street.
Russian TV journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who became known for her criticism of the war in Ukraine, was not the victim of a poison attack in Paris, contrary to what was briefly feared. After a check-up in the hospital, Ovsyannikova said on Telegram on Friday that she was now feeling much better. No traces of a toxic substance were discovered in her blood and the results of most tests are now available. It is not a case of poisoning. When she suddenly became sick on the street the day before and her condition worsened, the French police decided to investigate.
As the Paris public prosecutor’s office announced on Friday, it was investigating whether the journalist had been poisoned. “We were afraid for Marina Ovsyannikova,” said the general secretary of Reporters Without Borders, Christophe Deloire, in Paris.
A week and a half ago, Ovsyannikova was sentenced to eight and a half years in a prison camp in Russia. A court in Moscow found her guilty in absentia of allegedly spreading false reports about the Russian army. The editor, who was then still employed by Russian state television, caused a stir shortly after the start of the war against Ukraine in March 2022 when she jumped into the picture in the middle of a live news broadcast and held up a protest poster.
After the action, Ovsjannikova, now 45, worked for the German newspaper “Welt”, but then returned to Russia and protested against the war again. In October 2022, her lawyer announced that she had now finally left her homeland for Europe.
Source: Stern
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