2024-02-17 12:54:22
The team of the deceased opposition activist Alexei Navalny This Saturday, he accused the Russian authorities of trying to “cover your tracks” by refusing to hand over the body of the main opponent of the Kremlin to his family. Official investigators have informed one of the lawyers of the deceased opponent that they have not yet determined the cause of his death in prison, according to the activist’s spokesperson. , Count Yarmish.
“Alexei Navalny was assassinated. His death occurred on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. [hora local]”, according to the official message from Alexei’s mother,” Yarmish wrote on his X account (formerly Twitter). At first, a prison worker where Navalni died informed the family that the body was in the city of Salekhard, but when they went to the morgue they were told that he was not there.
“It is evident that the murderers want to cover their tracks and that is why they do not hand over Alexei’s body, hiding it even from his mother,” his entourage stated in a publication on Telegram. “We demand that Alexei Navalny’s body be delivered to his family immediately,” said the spokesperson for the dead opponent.
Although one of the lawyers has been told that the results of the autopsy will not be available until next week, another has been told that there are no signs of criminality. “It is obvious that they are lying and that they are doing everything possible to avoid handing over his body [a la familia]”, lamented the spokesperson for the Russian opposition.
Both the United States and the European Union hold Putin directly responsible for Navalny’s death. Meanwhile, in Russia, international media report that there have been hundreds of detainees who participated in improvised tributes.
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