A shower of reproaches.
As expected, the announcement of Alexeï Navalny's arrest on Sunday sparked many convictions around the world.
It should also continue since the opponent n ° 1 to Vladimir Poutine will soon be determined on his fate.
His lawyer Vadim Kobzev posted on Twitter a letter from the security forces informing him that the Khimki court, on the outskirts of Moscow is currently examining "the request for the detention of citizen Navalny Alexeï", a hearing held in the police station where he is being held.
The opponent has also denounced "the most total illegality" of the procedure against him.
A little earlier, Germany, where the Russian opponent spent his convalescence after a suspected poisoning attempt last summer, also reacted to the opponent's arrest.
And it was through its German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas that the country called on Russia to “release him immediately”.
The same credo, moreover, for Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, who also called for her "immediate release" and condemned the arrest of Navalny.
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Alexei Navalny, recovered from suspected poisoning in August, "made the conscious decision to return to Russia which he considers his personal and political homeland", and the fact that he was arrested by Russian authorities upon his arrival " is totally incomprehensible, ”Maas said.
Recognizing that Russia is bound by its own constitution and by international obligations with regard to the rule of law and the protection of civil rights, the Social Democratic Minister added: “Of course, these principles must also be applied ”to Alexeï Navalny, who“ should be released immediately ”.
On the night of Sunday to Monday, he was transferred from Sheremetyevo airport to the Khimki police station, a suburb of Moscow, where he remained several hours without seeing his lawyers.
"We are not given access to him, we are told that he is asleep," said Vyacheslav Guimadi, legal director of Navalny's organization, the Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), on Twitter overnight.
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As a "serious poisonous attack" was committed on Russian soil against Mr. Navalny, a charismatic anti-corruption activist and nemesis of the Kremlin, Germany calls on Russia to "thoroughly investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice, ”Maas said.
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Alexeï Navalny, 44, has been wanted since the end of December by the FSIN, the service in charge of prisons in Russia, which accuses him of having violated the conditions of a suspended sentence which he received in 2014. The leader opposition party had suddenly fallen into a coma in August, on his return from an election tour in Siberia.
First hospitalized in Omsk, he was finally evacuated to a Berlin hospital under pressure from his relatives.
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Three European laboratories have since concluded that the opponent was poisoned by a Novichok-type nerve agent, developed in Soviet times for military purposes, a finding confirmed by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) despite the denials from Moscow.
