“Deeply shocked” memorials set up for Navalny in Oberland

As of: February 24, 2024, 6:46 a.m

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A photo, candles and flowers: the memorial for the late Alexei Navalny in front of the bathhouse in Waldram.

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A woman from Wolfratshausen is building two memorials for the late Putin critic Alexei Navalny.

“He was a figurehead,” she says.

Wolfratshausen – The death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny has also shocked many people in Germany.

Angela Mauss-Hanke from Wolfratshausen wants to remember the man who died at the age of 47 behind the walls of a prison camp in northern Siberia.

With the help of an acquaintance, Mauss-Hanke built two small memorials.

“Deeply shocked” memorials set up for Navalny in Oberland

With candles, flowers and a picture of Navalny, she would like to give citizens the opportunity to think of Navalny in front of the parish church of St. Andreas in the old town of Wolfratshausen and in front of the Badehaus documentation site in Waldram.

The idea came about relatively spontaneously, says Mauss-Hanke in an interview with our newspaper.

Through her work at the Academy of Psychoanalysis, she is in regular contact with many colleagues from other countries, especially from crisis areas.

Putin critic is dead - “He was a figurehead,” says Wolfratshauserin

This also applies to colleagues from Russia.

“I noticed that they were also deeply shocked.

Navalny was a figurehead for them,” says the woman from Wolfratshausen.

She then organized the memorials – “also out of helplessness,” she admits.

You can tell that people are touched by Navalny's fate.

“I still have a few candles when the others are burned out.”