Alexei Navalny's body shows “bruises” that could have been caused by a containment measure due to convulsions and are particularly consistent with a cardiac massage given to him in an attempt to revive him. An employee of the emergency service at Salekhard Hospital in the Russian Arctic said this and also confirmed that the body is in the morgue of this hospital, where the mother and her lawyer were refused admission yesterday. Access to someone hastily informed them that the death was related to “sudden death syndrome.” Meanwhile, the popular Bild newspaper from Germany, without citing direct sources, puts forward the hypothesis that the opponent “perhaps died shortly before his possible release” as part of a “prisoner exchange” between the USA, Russia and Germany. In short, his death would have destroyed a plan that Vladimir Putin had hinted at in a recent interview with American journalist and former face of Fox News Tucker Carlson.
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ANSA agency The NGO Ovd-Info: “401 pro-Navalny demonstrators stopped in Russia” – News – Ansa.it Demonstrations in memory of the dissident took place in the first two days. Biden: “Putin will pay a price” (ANSA)
The Russian president, the German newspaper writes, wants to bring back an agent who shot an opponent in Berlin in 2019. And “there was talk of the possibility that Putin would release Navalny in return.” In addition, a possible prisoner exchange has been discussed for some time between Moscow and Washington, which is demanding the release of former Marine Paul Whelan and journalist Evan Gershkovich, both held in Russian prisons on espionage charges. Bild's theory, which has yet to be confirmed, would contradict the reconstruction of Navalny's team, which yesterday openly accused the Moscow authorities of having committed “a planned murder”. While several Western leaders have directly questioned Putin, as American President Joe Biden has done again in recent hours. The American ambassador to Russia, Lynne Tracy, joined the hundreds of Russians who laid flowers in honor of Navalny in front of the Lubyanka, the former headquarters of the Soviet KGB and now the FSB secret service. “Today we mourn the loss of Alexei Navalny and other victims of political repression in Russia,” the embassy wrote on its Telegram account. Yesterday evening, the British ambassador also laid flowers in memory of the deceased opponent at the same place. However, according to the non-governmental organization Ovd-Info, which provides legal assistance to prisoners, around 400 citizens have been arrested during condolence demonstrations in over 30 Russian cities over the past three days. Of these, around 130 have already been released without charge.
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ANSA Agency U2's Bono pays tribute to Navalny: “Say his name” – News – Ansa.it To the public: “Putin never said it, tonight we will say it” (ANSA)
Even today, according to ANSA findings on site, many Muscovites lined up to leave floral gifts at the foot of the Wall of Pain, a monument to the victims of Soviet oppression. The police limited themselves to cordoning off the square to regulate access and checking the bags and backpacks of those who wanted to approach the monument. Since there are currently no official reports about the circumstances of Navalny's death in the IK-3 penal colony in the Arctic Yamal-Nenets district, the opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta reported on the statement of an employee of the emergency services at the hospital in Salekhard. the district capital. After confirming that the body was in the morgue of that hospital, the source spoke of “bruises,” without necessarily linking them to possible violence. “Such bruises – said the doctor – occur after cramps. The person is shaken by convulsions, he tries to contain them and that's how the signs appear.” The source then spoke in particular of a bruise on his chest: “It's something,” he said, “that is due to a heart massage . That is, they tried to resuscitate him, but he died, most likely due to cardiac arrest.” “But on the facts of the case, no one says anything about the arrest,” emphasized the same source, revealing that no autopsy has been carried out at the moment. Meanwhile, the wife of now-former Russian dissident Yulia Navalnaya has been invited to attend the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels tomorrow. “EU ministers will send a strong message of support to the freedom fighters in Russia and honor the memory of Alexei Navalny,” wrote High Representative Josep Borrell in X. “His words will help all of us Europeans to understand even better what kind “The system of violence we face in Ukraine and must contain it,” commented Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, saying that Navalny “challenged the Russian system and was killed after years of injustice and uncivilized persecution.”
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