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How did Alexei Navalny die?
A Putin critic puts forward a new theory - it involves cold torture and secret service technology.
London/Paris - A new theory is circulating about the circumstances of Alexei Navalny's death in the Russian prison camp: Navalny may have been killed using "an old method used by KGB special forces," human rights activist Vladimir Osechkin told the British newspaper
The Times
.
According to him, bruises on the Kremlin critic's body could indicate this.
Osechkin is the brains behind the website
gulagu.net.
Novaya
Gazeta Europa
had quoted a medic who reported a bruise on Navalny's chest, among other places.
The informant attributed the marks to resuscitation measures.
Osechkin now described a different interpretation.
Navalny dies in prison camp: Putin critic believes “hit on the heart” is a possible cause of death
The KGB trained its forces to kill “a man with a blow to the heart, to the middle of the body,” said the human rights activist in the article published late on Tuesday evening (February 22): “That was a hallmark of the KGB .” People imprisoned in Arctic regions have previously reported that fellow prisoners were killed in this way.
The death of Alexei Navalny continues to be a mystery - but now there is a new theory about the cause of death.
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According to Osechkin, the crime could have been prepared with some kind of cold torture.
"I think that they first destroyed his body by keeping him in the cold for a long time and reducing blood circulation to a minimum," he told the
Times
.
“Then it is very easy to kill someone;
within seconds if the person carrying out the work has experience.”
Gulagu.net
had previously published a timeline of the events in the “Polarwolf” penal colony.
However, there is no evidence for Osechkin's latest thesis.
The Kremlin has so far kept Navalny's body under lock and key - despite appeals and requests from Navalny's mother and team.
Officially, there is currently talk of “sudden death syndrome”.
Alexei Navalny's widow Julia, however, recently referred to a possible further Novichok attack.
An assassination attempt on the opposition activist had already been carried out using the nerve agent in 2020.
However, Osechkin does not believe in this variant.
Navalny poisoned with Novichok?
“That would lay a lead directly to Putin”
“That is of course possible,” he admitted.
However, there are many ways to kill a person under camp conditions.
“Novichok would leave traces on his body and would lay a direct trail to Putin, considering the fact that he has tried this before,” Osechkin said.
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The Kremlin critic, who lives in exile in Paris, clearly sees responsibility for Navalny's death as Vladimir Putin.
One indication is that, according to
Gulagu.net
information, the domestic secret service FSB was on site two days before Navalny's death: “It was an order from Moscow, because without Moscow they would not have been able to dismantle the cameras in the way they did have done."
After Navalny's death: Kremlin critic insists on returning the body to his wife and mother
In the conversation with the
Times,
Osechkin pushed for the release of Navalny's body - first to the surviving relatives such as the wife, children and mother, and then also to the West "for tests".
Nevertheless, he was skeptical.
There is “a big risk that Putin’s special forces will cremate him instead,” he speculated.
Navalny, Putin's most prominent opponent, collapsed and died in a penal colony in the polar region on Friday (February 16), according to Russian prison authorities.
Navalny's sudden death caused international consternation.
Many Western politicians blame the Russian leadership and Putin himself for the death.
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