For a long time it was unclear when the poisoned Kremlin opponent Navalny would return to his homeland.
The Russian authorities are investigating him and want to put him in prison.
Update from January 17, 1:19 p.m
.: Putin critic
Alexej Navalny
wants to return to Russia this Sunday
(see our first report from January 13)
- and hours beforehand the
police
were posted
at Moscow
's Vnukovo airport
.
According to the
AFP
, the
authorities warned
against participating in an unauthorized "public event" there.
Journalists
were denied access - because of the
corona pandemic
, it was said to justify.
Navalny called on his supporters to
"pick
him
up"
at the airport
.
According to
the
AFP
,
more than 2000 people announced
on
that they would come despite temperatures of minus 20 degrees.
But also some of his
opponents
: According to the report, a nationalist group announced
that it would receive
Navalny with
Seljonka
, a liquid used as an antiseptic in Russia.
An
attack
with Seljonka had already been carried out on Navalny.
Putin critic Navalny says goodbye to Germany on Instagram: "Thank you friends!"
On Saturday, Navalny thanked the doctors, police officers, politicians and other people he met during his five-month stay in
Germany
.
“
Thank you friends!” He
wrote in German on Instagram.
And further: He was surprised “how much the Germans do not
correspond to
the
stereotypical ideas
about them.
So that they don't laugh, don't make friends (...), but give orders and want to fulfill them.
It's not like that at all.
They really are the nicest people with an excellent
sense of humor
and they always try to help. "
In
Vnukovo
the 44-year-olds according to the Russian law enforcement agency threatens the
immediate arrest
, as he had repeatedly violated the conditions of the five-year suspended sentence.
Navalny accuses the Russian secret service of being behind his
poisoning
with a chemical warfare agent from the Novitschok group.
The Russian government denies any involvement in the attack.
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Kremlin opponent Navalny leaves Germany and returns to Moscow - at considerable risk
Our first report from January 13th
: Moscow - The Kremlin opponent
Alexej Navalny *
wants to return to Moscow this Sunday after being poisoned.
He will land on January 17th with a plane operated by the Russian airline Pobeda, he announced in the short message service Twitter on Wednesday.
After the assassination attempt with the neurotoxin
Novitschok, he
has been in Germany to heal since August.
The
44-year-old wrote that the
question of
returning
has never arisen for him because he
never left
Russia
himself.
“I arrived in Germany in a resuscitation box,” he said, referring to his several weeks coma after the attack in Russia.
Navalny was recently in Germany for a rehabilitation measure.
He makes for the
poison attack *
Last August, a
“killer
squad
” of the FSB's domestic intelligence
agency under the orders of Kremlin chief
Vladimir Putin was
responsible for
a chemical warfare agent from the Novichok group
.
Russia denies involvement in the case and demands evidence of poisoning from Germany, for example.
Only then do you want to initiate an investigation.
Alexej Navalny: Return to Russia planned - authorities have recently increased pressure
Most recently, the Russian authorities increased the pressure on
Navalny
.
It was only on Tuesday that it became known that the prison authorities would like to bring the opposition activists to prison for allegedly not having fulfilled the probation requirement.
A corresponding application was made to a Moscow court.
Вопрос "возвращаться или нет" передо мной не стоял никогда.
Просто потому, что я не уезжал.
Я оказался в Германии, приехав в неё в реанимационной коробке.
17 января, в воскресенье, я вернусь домой рейсом "Победы".
Встречайте 😉https: //t.co/7J7ImemgvR
- Alexey Navalny (@navalny) January 13, 2021
Shortly before the turn of the year, the authority had asked Navalny in writing to meet the requirements of an earlier sentence and
to report in person to
the
Russian authorities
.
Otherwise there is a risk of imprisonment.
The case concerns a conviction from 2014.
Navalny *
wrote that the suspended sentence had already ended on December 30 of last year.
Alexei Navalny rejects allegations of alleged fraud
There are also investigations against the government critic for alleged
fraud
.
The Russian Investigation Committee accused him of having used donations equivalent to 3.9 million euros to his anti-corruption fund for “personal purposes” - for example to buy property and finance holidays.
Navalny refused.
The
Putin opponent
had always declared that he wanted to continue his work in Russia.
(dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital network.
