The death of the Russian opposition leader last Friday Alexei Navalny It continues to be a topic of conversation in Russia, although not through official media. So far, the politician’s family has been unable to recover his body and no one has confirmed where it can be found. Former Navalny collaborators denounced this weekend that the Kremlin had hidden him to prevent independent doctors from examining him and determining the true causes of his death. The mother of the deceased, who was transferred to the prison where Navalni lost his life on Saturday, was only given a death certificate stating that her son’s death occurred on February 16 at 2:17 p.m. local time. for a sudden death.
Russian authorities have said the dissident’s body will be returned to the family once the cause of death is determined. However, so far no one has been able to say where he was or what tests were carried out. The autopsy could have been delayed until a medical team arrived from Moscow. The significance of the event and its international implications prompted the Kremlin to deal directly with the case and entrust it to trusted doctors.
Residents of the area where the prison is located saw the landing of a private plane on Saturday afternoon, whose inmates would have been accompanied in official cars by government officials of that city. Yesterday it was announced that the body of Navalni had bruises, although these must have been due not to beatings but to the convulsions before his death. The news was reported by independent media Novaya Gazeta Europa, which cited an anonymous source who may have seen Navalni’s body. According to the witness, the body had numerous bruises, one of which was on the chest, possibly caused by attempts to revive the politician.
For its part, the British newspaper The Times goes even further in its theory about the strange circumstances of the dissident’s death, publishing yesterday that several Federal Security Service officers had arrived in the hours before Navalny’s death. Russian Security (FSB) too the penal colony IK-3 from Yarp, in the Yamal-Nenets region, where the enemy’s freedom was deprived. The British newspaper, citing sources inside the prison, claims that during the alleged visit, some of the surveillance cameras and listening devices in the facilities were switched off and dismantled.
Apparently, the visit was mentioned in a report from the local branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) and was not the only suspicious event related to the death of the opposition leader on the day of his death. Looking at the chronology of events, it would be surprising to see how quickly the authorities announced the events, considering that the prison is located in the middle of nowhere, 1,900 kilometers from Moscow, according to a release signed by the right Group. Gulag.net people.
Just two minutes after the official report of Navalny’s death, at 2:17 p.m. local time (10:17 a.m. Spanish peninsular time), the prison authorities issued what appeared to be a ready-made press release; Four minutes later, a government-controlled Telegram channel reported that the cause of death was a blood clot, and seven minutes later Dmitry Peskov, President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman commented on the news with journalists. “This quick moment can only mean one thing,” the human rights group said. “Everything was planned and coordinated, right up to the FSIN press release. Minute by minute. “From second to second”.
Navalny’s memorial events, which began in Russia on the same day of his death, were halted yesterday because people fear they will be arrested or that the personal information police are forcing them to hand over could be used against them. More than since Friday 401 arrests in 36 cities across the country, according to figures from the NGO OVD-Info. The flowers and banners placed by Russians at such significant places as the famous Solovetsky Stone or the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow and the Monument to the Victims of Political Repression in Saint Petersburg have disappeared, as has Navalny’s body.