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The action artist Pyotr Verilov, like Alexei Navalny, was the victim of a poison attack. He accuses the Russian authorities of having made it impossible to investigate the attack due to “aggressive inactivity”.
Moscow. At the Berlin Charité, where Alexej Navalny is currently receiving treatment, a Russian was also admitted two years before him with symptoms of intoxication. His name: Pyotr Versilov. Wersilow is an action artist, member of the “Woina” (War) and “Pussy Riot” art collectives.
In the late 2000s, “Voina” carried out various artistic actions critical of the Kremlin in public spaces. Politically provocative, spectacular, with a good junk factor. Later, Wersilow appeared as a member of the group “Pussy Riot”. He was married to “Pussy Riot” activist Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and they have one daughter. In July 2018, Verilov enraged the Kremlin at the World Cup: in the World Cup final between France and Croatia, he managed to run across the field disguised as a policeman along with other “Pussy Riot” activists. An action against police arbitrariness and a debacle for the police in the stadium. President Vladimir Putin was sitting in the VIP box at the time, as was his French colleague Emmanuel Macron. This action, Wersilow believes, could have ultimately been the deciding factor in the poison attack against him. “Such operations do not occur without the personal consent of Putin,” he is convinced.
A few weeks after the action at the World Cup stadium, now in mid-September 2018, Wersilow suddenly felt bad. That day he had an appointment in a court in Moscow. There he had a coffee. He himself describes the dramatic deterioration in his health in an interview with the Russian online medium Medusa. What the 32-year-old experienced in the following weeks (or did not always consciously experience it because he was in a coma) is very reminiscent of the Navalny case. Like Navalny, Verilov complained shortly after the alleged poisoning of poor vision and concentration, hallucinations and loss of consciousness.
Loss of vision and hallucinations.
Wersilow, now editor of the independent media project Mediazona, recalled his own experience following the news of the Navalny collapse on August 20. “My symptoms of poisoning in the first hours are very similar to Nawalnys,” he tweeted. As with Alexei Navalny, the Moscow hospital where he was treated did not want to let his relatives in. The police and intelligence agents had taken the floor.
