Alexei Navalni claims that his poisoning “unmasked” the Putin regime

First modification: 08/20/2022 – 23:23

This Saturday, August 20, marks two years since the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni was poisoned, collapsing during a flight from Siberia to Moscow and finishing, after the doctors who treated him assured that there were no toxic traces, in a state critical in a university hospital in Berlin.

Today, since his imprisonment, Navalni affirmed that this fact and his subsequent arrest “unmasked” the government headed by Vladimir Putin, revealing “not only the criminal character, but also the dysfunctional character and the failure of his regime.”

Through a letter he wrote in prison and his followers spread on social networks, he assured that, since then, the Putin administration stopped hiding its “repressive and authoritarian” tendency.

“For the second day I celebrate my second birthday, the day they tried to kill me, but for some reason I did not die,” he stressed.

In his letter he reiterated that the Justice did not open a criminal case for his poisoning with ‘novichok’, a substance for military use. According to him, “almost all the members of the group of murderers” were found.

Neither were the members of the commando of chemical weapons experts involved, part of the Federal Security Service, prosecuted and participated in another series of failed attacks.

In addition, he highlighted the contradictions of the “highest level” authorities who claim that there was no poisoning or that it did happen, but it was perpetrated by Western secret services with provocative purposes. “They strongly and simultaneously defend these two versions,” he charged.

The United States demanded the release of Navalni

State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a statement that the White House is calling for Alexei Navalny to be released. “We join family, colleagues and supporters around the world in calling for it,” he said.

Two years after his poisoning perpetrated by “Russian government officials with a nerve agent”, who later imprisoned him “blatantly for political reasons”, they recalled the situation of the opponent of the Putin regime.

In the statement, Price rejected “the use of chemical weapons to poison a political opponent” and called on Moscow to “completely dismantle its chemical weapons program.”

The high representative of the European Union, Josep Borrell, expressed himself in the same direction, ratifying that the community club “continues to condemn in the strongest possible terms” the attack against Navalni.

The diplomat called on Russia “to fulfill its obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.”

Finally, Olaf Scholz described the opponent of the Kremlin as “a brave man who wanted to fight for democracy, freedom and the rule of law.” The German chancellor added that Navalni “defends the principles” of many Russian inhabitants.

with EFE