“
It’s worse than a crime, it’s a mistake
!”
»,
exclaimed the Bonapartist State Councilor Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe, learning of the execution of the Duke of Enghien, on March 21, 1804, ordered by Napoleon, First Consul.
Two hundred and twenty years later, this sentence applies perfectly to the death inflicted, on February 16, 2024, by the Russian authoritarian regime on Alexeï Navalny, who had been its main opponent for twelve years.
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The crime is obvious: what need did the Kremlin have to transfer Navalny, already imprisoned, to a penal colony far from Moscow, north of the Arctic Circle, when we knew his health was very diminished since his Novichok poisoning in 2020 ?
Stalinist practices
But beyond the murder of a defenseless man, inflicted by a regime which paradoxically claims to defend Christian values, we are dealing here with a political error.
In domestic policy as in foreign policy.
In domestic politics, this signals a return of Russia to Stalinist practices...
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