The physique of Vladimir Putin‘s rival Alexei Navalny has been discovered ‘lined in bruises’ a day after it was reported lacking.
Navalny is believed to have died on Friday (February 16) after he collapsed following a stroll in jail. Russian authorities declare he died of “sudden death syndrome” whereas world leaders have pointed the finger on the Russian despot.
Just a day later (Saturday, February 17) the physique was reportedly misplaced. Paramedics who’ve since seen the physique mentioned accidents it exhibited appeared per indicators Navalny might have been “murdered” beneath Putin’s orders, Novaya Gazeta Europe reviews.
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They added the marks counsel he might have suffered convulsions in his last moments. A paramedic who claims to have seen the physique mentioned: “Such damage occurs from convulsions. The person is convulsing, they are trying to restrain him, but the convulsions can be very strong, and that’s why bruises appear.”
Ambulance employees in Salekhard, close to the Arctic Wolf jail the place the Russian opposition chief was jailed, had been the primary to identify the bruises after they found the physique. Navalny’s physique is now beneath police supervision at Salekhard district medical hospital.
It comes only a day after Navalny’s physique was reported “missing” from the morgue the place his household was informed his stays had been being stored. The political prisoner’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh mentioned: “The lawyer and Alexei’s mom arrived on the Salekhard morgue. It is closed, regardless of the colony’s assurances that it’s working and Navalny’s physique is there.
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“The lawyer called the phone number indicated on the door. He was told that he was the seventh person to call today.
“They don’t have Alexei’s physique within the morgue.”
World leaders have since suggested Putin might be behind the death. US President Joe Biden is one, having said: “We don’t know precisely what occurred to Navalny, however little question his dying was the consequence of Putin and his thugs.”
The UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman Alicia Kearns echoed the claims. Appearing on BBC Breakfast, she mentioned: “We all know that this was a homicide.
“Putin has tried to homicide Navalny a number of instances. And the reason being to silence that dream of freedom that so many Russians have.”
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy added the tyrant was a “thug” following Navalny’s dying. He mentioned: “Putin kills whoever he wants, be it an opposition leader, or anyone else who seems as the target exactly to him.
“After the homicide of Alexei Navalny, it’s absurd to understand Putin as a supposedly authentic head of a Russian state and he’s a thug who maintains energy by means of corruption and violence.”
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