Alexei Navalny’s mother recorded a video message in which she said she saw her son’s body.
“I just left the City of Salechard Investigation Committee building. I spent almost 24 hours there alone, alone with investigators and forensic experts. They only let the lawyer in this followingnoon. Last night they secretly took me to the morgue, where they showed Alexei. The investigators claim they know the cause of death, they have all the medical and legal documents I have seen and I have signed the medical death certificate. According to the law, they should have given me Alexei’s body immediately, but they haven’t done it yet,” A. Navalno’s mother says in the video.
“Researcher Varapayev told me frankly – time does not help you, the corpse is rotting”
According to her, she is being “blackmailed and given conditions as to where, when and how Alexei should be buried.”
“In my presence, they receive instructions – either from the Kremlin or from the central office of the Investigative Committee. They want it done in secret, with no goodbyes. They want to take me to the edge of the cemetery, to a fresh grave and say – here lies your son. I don’t agree with that,” she said.
According to A.Navalno’s mother, she recorded this video clip because “they started threatening her”. She was told that if she did not agree to a secret funeral for A. Navalno, “they will do something with his body.” “Researcher Varapayev told me frankly – time does not help you, the corpse is rotting.”
The death of Russian opposition figure A. Navalny in a remote prison in the Arctic, where the 47-year-old man was serving a 19-year prison sentence, was announced on Friday.
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2024-04-28 21:08:37
