French cops have opened an investigation into a possible assassination attempt on fugitive former Russian television news anchor Marina Ovsyannikova – who skipped out of house arrest last October and fled to Paris after being hit with charges of sedition over her on-air protest of the murderous invasion of Ukraine in March of 2022 – suddenly fell ill after coming in contact with an unknown powdery substance on the door of her apartment on Thursday, CBS News reports.
Whatever happened it appears it wasn’t too bad, as Reporters Without Borders Secretary General Christophe Deloire said that Ovsyannikova was feeling better later on Thursday but remained under medical supervision as doctors try to figure out what the hell she came in contact with. Last week Ovsyannikova was sentenced in absentia to 8.5 years in the gulag for her thoughtcrimes.