On February 16, 2024, Alexei Navalny was declared dead by the prison administration where he was imprisoned. Vladimir Ozetchkin, a whistleblower, provides some details about the death of the Russian enemy.
While Alexei Navalny was serving a 19-year sentence for “extremism” in an Arctic penitentiary, he died this Friday. The origin of his death has been the focus of debate for several days. But a Russian whistleblower, Vladimir Ozetchkin, founder of the website Gulagu.net, has an idea how Vladimir Putin's opponent was killed, DH net reports.
A single fatal blow
Very often, opponents of the Kremlin master suddenly die from poisoning. In the case of Alexei Navalny, if he had ever survived, he would have fallen victim to an “old method of the KGB,” the Soviet Union’s secret service. Vladimir Ozetchkin made such comments to our colleagues at The Times after reading information from contacts who worked in the prison where the opponent was being held.
According to the whistleblower, Navalny was held in an open cell for several hours. Due to the extreme temperatures, which can reach around -30°C, accommodation in this type of cell usually lasts no longer than 60 minutes.
“I believe they destroyed his body first by leaving him in the cold for long periods of time and limiting his blood flow to a minimum. Then it becomes very easy to kill someone in seconds if the “enforcer has some experience with it,” Russian said.
However, this technique requires a second step, simple and radical: a blow to the heart. “It's an old technique used by the old KGB. They have trained their agents to kill someone with a single shot to the heart aimed at the body. That was a trademark of the KGB,” he said. explained Vladimir Ozechkin
According to prison sources, it is the visible bruises on Alexei Navalny's remains that allow us to move this forward. However, this version remains hypothetical and has not yet been verified.
This technology, which dates back to the war, is still used to oppress certain prisoners, say former prisoners.
“Sudden Death Syndrome”
“When Alexei's lawyer and his mother arrived in the colony this morning, they were told that the cause of Navalny's death was sudden death syndrome,” said Ivan Zhdanov, who heads the late opponent's anti-corruption foundation.
“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out but did not produce any positive result. The emergency doctors pronounced the patient dead. The causes of death are being determined,” said the penitentiary authority quoted by France Info.
But the mystery surrounding the death of Vladimir Putin's opponent reveals certain tensions at the international level. France, Sweden, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark announced on Monday that they had summoned the Russian ambassador to their countries.