Putin's pet peeve has been crushed.
Alexei Navalny
died on February 16, at the age of 47, while serving a sentence in a remote Arctic penal colony.
“Anger and indignation”
, reacted Emmanuel Macron.
Navalny, after denouncing corruption in his country, had become the symbol of resistance to the omnipotence of the Russian president.
In 2020, he escaped a poisoning organized by secret service thugs.
An episode told by the person concerned in the documentary
Navalny
, which Paris Première is rebroadcast this Sunday at 9 p.m.
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This film follows the opponent, from his poisoning to his return to Russia in January 2021. Alexeï Navalny, a lawyer by training, overwhelms the master of the Kremlin in every possible way – particularly through humor.
The Oscar voters were sensitive to this: they awarded director Daniel Roher the statuette for best documentary in 2023. Navalny impressed with his tenacity.
Less by his political speech.
The author also takes care to question him about his past alliance with sulphurous nationalists.
Also read: What we know about “penal colony number 3” in Siberia where Alexeï Navalny died
The most exceptional sequence occurs later, when the opponent calls one by one the spies who sought to assassinate him.
An NGO helped him find their trail.
He poses as a Russian intelligence executive.
And, miraculously, one of his interlocutors confesses.
Why did the operation fail?
“I'm asking myself the same question as you
,” explains the henchman before providing details... Putin has always denied any involvement.
And he was cynical.
“
If there had been an intention to kill him, they wouldn’t have missed it
,” he said ironically.
The tone has changed today.
Singled out for the death of the detainee, the Kremlin denounces
“unacceptable”
accusations .
A new film on Arte
For its part, Public Senate rebroadcasts Navalny, the man who defies the tsar
on Saturday at
8 p.m.
Opponents in exile, historian, journalist, former diplomat speak and paint a portrait of the activist.
We also discover in detail the prison conditions that were those of Navalny in his different prisons.
Read alsoNavalny: face to face with Putin on Public Senate
As for Arte, the Franco-German channel unveils Saturday at 5 p.m. (it will be rebroadcast on March 2)
Alexeï Navalny, Putin's enemy
.
A new documentary which sheds light, among other things, on the media machine built by the activist, a machine capable of uniting millions of Russians.
And perhaps to disrupt the presidential election which is to be held next month.