Alexeï Navalny’s widow asks the European Union to further target Vladimir Putin’s entourage. The body of the Russian opponent is still refused to his family.
She decided to go to the front to defend the memory of her husband. This Tuesday in Brussels, Yulia Navalnaïa called on the foreign ministers of the European Union to further target Vladimir Putin’s entourage and “corrupt oligarchs” who support him.
For the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, the Russian regime is responsible for the death of the Russian opponent: “in the middle of the meeting we received Yulia Navalnaya. And we paid tribute to the memory of Alexei Navalny who, as you know, was slowly murdered in a Russian prison by the Putin regime. I think this are the words: slowly murdered in a Russian prison by the Putin regime.”
Yulia Navalnaïa appeared on Monday in a video where she accuses the Russian leader of being directly responsible for the death of her husband.
In Russia, the family goes through new torture because they are prevented from recovering the opponent’s body. His mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, went to Salekhard, capital of the district of Yamalo-Nenetsia, in the far Russian north where Alexeï Navalny was serving his 19-year sentence for “extremism”. After several hours of waiting, she was finally told that she was not “not allowed” to enter a morgue where it could be kept, and that investigators would carry out an alleged “chemical expertise” on his remains.
Navalny’s death resonated across Europe and beyond. Vigils are organized in many capitals. In Rome, a candlelight rally brought together hundreds of demonstrators who expressed their anger following the death of the Russian opponent.
