Navalny's widow fears arrest during Friday's funeral

Yulia Navalnaya, widow of opposition leader Alexei Navalnywho died last week in a Russian prison, warned this Wednesday that they still do not know whether the police will arrest “those who come to say goodbye to her husband at the funeral planned for this Friday in Moscow.”

In a speech to the European Parliament twelve days after the meeting death of her husbandNavalnaya said that “he was tortured for three years, starved in a tiny cell, isolated from the outside world and without visitorscalls and letters,” and then “kill him.”

“Even after this, They abused his body and abused his mother.“Navalnaya complained, assuring that the murder of her husband “once again shows that Putin is capable of anything and that one cannot negotiate with him.”

In a short and emotional speech, during which Navalnaya looked up at the sky several times and applause rang out in a brimming hall, the widow of the opposition leader wanted to tell MEPs “what Alexey was like” to illustrate how his judgment, Europe must be more creative if it wants to defeat the Russian president’s regimeVladimir Putin.

“TThey have elections in June and many of you will be campaigning., they will meet with voters, do interviews and record advertisements. Now imagine that all this is impossible, that not a single television wants to interview you, that there is no money in the world to promote advertising and that voters who go to rallies are arrested,” Navalnaya said. “Welcome to Putin’s Russia,” he added.

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Her husband, she continued, managed to become one of the leaders of the Russian opposition by “experimenting,” learning to make YouTube videos, developing tactical voting strategies to win seats or transmitted messages to his team even from prison.

“If they really want to topple Putin, they will have to be innovative and stop being boring. They cannot harm him with another resolution or another package of sanctions, no different from the previous ones, or by thinking that he is a person who has moral principles,” Navalnaya insisted.

Defeat the one who is “leader of a criminal organization” Like Putin, Navalny’s widow said, EU governments should focus on “their friends, associates and those with mafia money” such as “discreet lawyers” in European countries who are “helping Putin hide his money.”

Navalnaya, who has already put forward her intention to continue her husband’s fight, assured that Putin “must answer” for what he has done to Russia, Ukraine and Navalny himself, who will no longer realize his dream of seeing “what the future will be.” “Beautiful Russia of the future.”

“I will do my best to make your dream come true”– he concluded to long applause from the audience.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola, who met with Navalna before the speech, for her part assured that the hope that the opposition leader personified, and which his captors wanted to extinguish “remains brighter than ever.”

“The many brave people who took to the streets of Russia after his death once again demonstrate the fragility of authoritarianism. I take solace in the fact that if history teaches us anything, it is that the pillars of autocracy always eventually crumble under the weight of their own corruption and the inherent desire of the people to live freely. And when they inevitably do, it will be because of what Alexey and his family did,” Metsola said.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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