2024-02-18 22:11:27
The censorship, persecution and mystery imposed by the Russian government conditioned Aleksei Navalny until after his death. Because now the fight of the family of Vladimir Putin’s opposition leader, who died last Friday in prison, where he was serving a sentence for extremism and fraud, seems to be to try to recover his body and know the true causes of the death of him.
Thus, the blanket of questions discovered about his death since his mother indicated that he had been murdered seems to continue growing with the silence of the Russian Government, according to Kira Yarmish, a trusted collaborator of the opposition leader.
According to Yarmish herself, Navalny’s mother, Liudmila Navalnaya, was officially notified that her son had died on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time. Furthermore, that the body had been transferred by investigators from the Investigation Committee to the city of Salekhard, where the corresponding examinations were carried out.
Although it was said that the body of Navalny, 47, would be immediately handed over to relatives, when the mother and her lawyer arrived at the Salekhard morgue they found conflicting versions of the whereabouts of Navalny’s body. .
In the first instance, a worker at the site told the mother that the body was there, but later when she contacted the morgue’s telephone line, another person had indicated that the body was not found and that she was the seventh person to call. to ask.
Yarmish also said investigators informed the lawyer that Navalny’s body would undergo a new examination, the results of which would not be delivered until next week.
What for the opposition leader’s spokesperson is nothing more than a sign that they are lying, they want to hide something delicate and they are doing everything possible not to hand over the body, in order not to expose the method they would have used to kill him. .
“He was murdered, there is no doubt. They are always lying, taking us in circles and erasing their tracks,” said Yarmish, through his social network account X, since he has also lived in exile for years.
Navalny, who had been in prison for three years, in the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian autonomous district of Yamalia-Nenetsia, in the Arctic area, by order of the Putin government, was undoubtedly the most important figure in the opposition. But, his health was declining due to prison conditions and a poisoning of which he was a victim in 2020 and, subsequently, a hunger strike carried out in 2021.
Official information on the death of the Russian activist has not yet been released, hence the multiple versions about the causes of his death cause more suspicions of a possible murder.
Ivan Zhdanov, another close collaborator of Navalny, indicated that a prison worker had said that the leader had died from “sudden death syndrome.”
To which the authorities simply pointed out that the leader had started to feel bad after a regular walk and that they had tried everything possible to get him back.
“Prisoner Navalny AA felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness,” the prison service said in a press release.
In the last hours a new version gained strength, after being published by the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta, which includes the version of a paramedic from the city’s ambulance system, who noted that Galvani’s body had “bruises due to seizures.” .
According to the publication, the health worker said the marks looked like those typical of a person who suffers from seizures and is supported by others. The source also indicated that the body had another hematoma on the chest, but it could be due to the resuscitation maneuvers. However, members of the Russian Federal Police have told Navalny’s lawyer that the causes of death have not yet been determined.
In different cities in Russia, some 400 people have been arrested for participating in protests and rallies organized by Navalny’s death.
The main concentration sites have been in cities such as Novgorod, Veliki, Tomsk, Belgrade, Kursk, Tula, Novocherkask, Kranoyarsk, Ufa, Saint Petersburg and Moscow itself.
One of the alerts was launched by the NGO OVD – Info, which announced that its team of lawyers was already working to help detainees in different regions of the country.
In Saint Petersburg, protesters gathered at the well-known Solovietski Stone, a monument in honor of the victims of political repression, from where they were evicted by the city’s security forces. Among the list of detainees is, precisely, one of the photojournalists from Novaya Gazeta, the newspaper that published the version of the bruises on Navalny’s body.
Another important point of concentration has been Lubyanka Square, very close to the KGB headquarters, where the arrest of at least 50 protesters was reported. Until there, however, many citizens came to lay flowers in tribute to Navalny on an improvised wailing wall and carrying banners that bore the words “Shame” and “Murderer.”
The death of the opposition leader has generated demonstrations even outside Russia. Citizens of Germany, the United Kingdom, Turkey, Georgia, France, Portugal, Lithuania and Armenia, among other countries, have joined the tributes to Navalny, according to the same NGO OVD – Info.
Navalny’s death comes a little more than a month before a new day of presidential elections in Russia, in which President Putin is expected to reaffirm his power and political dominance. Putin has so far said nothing about the death of his most important opponent.
And just hours after Navalny’s death was announced, his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, spoke at the Munich Security Conference. There, the Russian activist also said with broken words that she had not seen her husband for more than two years.
“I would like Putin, all his staff, all his entourage, all his government, his friends, to know that they will be punished for what they have done to our country, to my family and to my husband. “That day will soon come,” said Navalnaya, amidst the gaze of important world leaders, ratifying the strong fighting spirit that her husband always praised in public and for which he stated that without her he would not have been able to move forward in his battle for so long. time.
On their social networks, Navalny’s partner published a photo in which her husband is seen kissing her forehead, accompanied by a short text: “I love you.” What can be read as a direct response to what the woman told was the last message from her partner from prison: “I feel like you are with me every second.”
Given the multiple questions and the political price that Navalny’s death could have on Russia and Putin’s government, the official authorities came out to disqualify the possible responsibility of a murder.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, for its part, described the statements of some world political sectors as unfounded, however in Russia itself and different countries thousands of citizens continue to demonstrate and demand prompt and clear explanations.
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