Alexeï Navalny, the main opponent of Vladimir Putin, died suddenly at the age of 47, Friday January 16, in a penal colony in the Arctic where he was serving sentences totaling more than thirty years of imprisonment.
According to the opposition media
Novaya Gazeta Europe
, his body is in the Salekhard district hospital (Siberia).
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According to Russian biweekly newspaper information, no autopsy has yet been carried out.
“Some claimed that the order came from Moscow to wait for specialists in the capital, while others claimed that the doctors themselves refused to perform an autopsy.
This is a political question and we don’t know exactly how it will happen
,” testified a district paramedic.
The latter claims to have learned that bruises were found on the body of Alexeï Navalny.
According to this same source, these injuries were due
to “convulsions”
.
“Killers” seek to “cover their tracks”, says Navalny’s family
Yesterday, the body of the political opponent was nowhere to be found.
For his relatives - who went to the morgue indicated by the authorities without finding the remains there - the
"killers"
sought to
"cover their tracks"
.
According to the administration,
“the causes of death [were] being established”
.
According to the Russian Prison Service (FSIN), Alexei Navalny died on Friday after suddenly feeling unwell.
“On February 16, 2024, in penitentiary center No. 3, prisoner Navalny AA felt unwell after a walk and almost immediately lost consciousness
,” the FSIN of the Arctic region of Yamal said in a statement.
“All necessary resuscitation measures were carried out but did not produce positive results.
The emergency doctors noted the death of the patient
,” he said.