Navalny’s widow says Putin ‘is Satan’ for not releasing physique

Alexei Navalny‘s widow stated Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘is Satan’ for ordering that his arch critic’s physique shouldn’t be handed over to his household after his shock demise in a grisly Arctic penal colony 9 days in the past.

Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to maintain up her late husband’s anti-corruption work, stated in a brand new video immediately accusing Putin of accountability in Navalny’s demise: ‘What Putin is doing now could be hate. No, it isn’t even hatred, it is satanism.’

‘What will you do together with his corpse? How low will you sink to mock the person you murdered?’ she continued.

For greater than every week the household has waited in useless to see the physique of the Russian opposition chief, who Russia claimed died from ‘sudden demise syndrome’ after a stroll on the brutal IK-3 jail in Kharp on February 16. 

Russia stated it wouldn’t launch the physique to the household for 14 days as investigators probe the hazy circumstances of his demise – a transfer critics say suggests foul play, following Navalny’s Novichok poisoning whereas investigating Russian corruption in 2020.

‘I fully perceive that this has not been curated by some investigator in Salekhard. Putin is directing all of it,’ Navalnaya stated in her deal with shared this morning.

‘It’s Putin saying “put pressure on the mother, break her, tell her the body of her son is rotting”,’ she stated.

Following a personal assembly with US President Joe Biden on Thursday, Yulia Navalnaya spoke candidly about her husband’s demise in a video shared on YouTube.

She outright accused Putin of ‘homicide’, reiterating earlier allegations with the Kremlin has denied, and stated that her husband’s physique was being held ‘hostage’.

‘Alexei’s mom is actually tortured for a number of days,’ she continued. ‘The investigator lies to her, blackmails her and lies once more, promising her that the whole lot will quickly be cleared up.’

A day after information of Navalny’s demise, Lyudmila Navalnaya travelled to the penal colony some 1,200 miles (1,900km) north of Moscow the place her late son was serving a 19-year sentence on costs of ‘extremism’.

There, she was informed she couldn’t see the physique and that it was being held in a close-by morgue in Salekhard. Navalny’s crew had been later informed that the physique was not there, and so they couldn’t see it.

Authorities in a while Saturday revealed the reason for demise as ‘sudden demise syndrome’, usually attributable to a coronary heart situation in adults.

Russia later stated it could want 14 days for investigators to look at the physique earlier than handing it again to the household, who had been additionally allegedly ‘blackmailed’ into burying him in a secret funeral.

‘Something will occur to the physique, as a result of, and I quote “time is working against us”,’ Navalnaya warned in her newest. 

Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmysh stated beforehand that Lyudmila Navalnaya had refused to conform as they ‘don’t have any authority to determine how and the place to bury her son’ however was informed by an investigator: ‘Time’s not in your facet. Corpses decompose.’

She was allegedly made to signal a demise certificates saying her son had died from pure causes.

Yulia Navalnaya, in as we speak’s assertion, reiterated the lengths Putin goes to, in her view, to silence and torment the household.

‘They threaten to bury him themselves, proper within the colony the place he was killed,’ she stated unequivocally.

‘This is identical Putin that likes to indicate that he’s a practising Christian,’ she stated.

Putin has for many years portrayed himself as a loyal Orthodox Christian and has lately targeted on selling what he calls ‘conventional values.’

‘We at all times knew that Putin’s religion is pretend, however now we will see it like by no means earlier than,’ Navalnaya stated. ‘No true Christian may ever do what Putin is now doing with Alexei’s physique.’

She additionally denounced Putin’s resolution to launch the Ukraine marketing campaign two years in the past.

‘You will reply for all of this.. And for this (Navalny’s demise) and for the struggle that you just unleashed two years in the past, additionally hiding behind Christian values.

‘You are simply killing. You are simply killing sleeping folks at evening with missiles blessed by the church,’ she stated.

Her late husband, who was half-Ukrainian, was nominally against the struggle in Ukraine, however beforehand highlighted the financial pressure the struggle would placed on Russia.

‘Russia can unwell afford waging the struggle,’ he stated, as reported by Al Jazeera. Navalny additionally supported Russia’s place on Crimea, but in addition voiced assist for the Maidan protests in Kyiv towards, in his view, corrupt officers.

On Monday, Navalnaya pledged to maintain preventing towards the Kremlin’s oppression to assemble a ‘peaceable, pleased, lovely Russia that Alexei envisioned’.

‘I need to dwell in a free Russia, I need to construct a free Russia,’ she stated in a video message entitled ‘I’ll proceed the work of Alexei Navalny’.

Speaking on the Munich Security Conference on February 16, a day after Navalnaya attended, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky declared: ‘Putin has murdered one other opposition chief.’

‘After the homicide of Alexei Navalny it’s absolute to pursue Putin because the reliable head of the Russian state,’ he continued. ‘He is a thug who maintains energy by way of corruption and violence.’