Alexei Navalny's 'body with investigators' after claims he was murdered by Putin – as his death is confirmed
ALEXEI Navalny's death has been confirmed as officials say “his body is with investigators”.
It comes after people claimed that Navalny was actually killed on Putin's direct orders.
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He died on February 16 at 2:17 pm local time, according to a document given to Navalny's mother, Lyudmila.
Jail authorities in russia said navalny fell unconscious and died after a walk at the dreaded one prison “Polar Wolf”. where he served a three-decade prison sentence.
NavalnyPutin's chief domestic critic Russiahad bravely challenged the tyrant's rule and his gruesome war Ukraine.
Many of his supporters feared he would be killed while behind bars because of his strong support from the public outside the prison.
Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh demanded that his body be immediately handed over to his family.
Many are suspicious of the circumstances surrounding his death after he laughed and joked with a judge during a video call on Thursday.
His family also said he was doing well health when they visited him in prison three days before his death.
He had been “cheerful and healthy” in the days before his death.
Respected Russian political analyst Ekaterina Shulman told Bild in Russian: “We don't have that many reasons to suspect a natural death.”
“We are seeing a deliberate murder before our eyes, and not something else,” she said.
“Not even a death due to difficult circumstances (in the Arctic prison).”
People in Russia have said he could have been drugged or poisoned in the colony run by Colonel Kalinin.
Former FSB Colonel Gennady Gudkov (67), an opposition politician like Navalny, supported these theories.
He said: “He was held… under torture conditions.
“Either his organism did not overcome these tortures (or) they could have given drugs that cause heart failure, they could have given a poison.
“We will only know the truth when Putin is gone. The fact that they killed him is beyond any doubt.”
His body is now with investigators looking for the cause of death.
GLOBAL REACTIONS
David Cameron scolded Vladimir Putin for his role Navalny's death say “we must hold Putin accountablewhile he shot That of Russia 'terrible' regime.
He said: “There should be consequences… look what Putin's Russia did to him.
“He died and that is because of the action that Putin's Russia took. No one can look at this regime now and not recognize it for the truly terrible nature it has.”
Protesters gathered outside the London embassy and chanted critical slogans against Putin, such as “Putin is a murderer”, “the war must stop” and “love is stronger than war”.
Many chanted critical slogans Vladimir Putinwhich they blamed for the the death of activistswhile holding up signs calling him a “murderer” and demanding accountability.
One sign read: “Putin is a murderer.”
As two others showed: “the war must stop” and “love is stronger than war”.
American president Joe Biden said in White House remarks: “Make no mistake, Putin is responsible for Navalny's death.”
He added: “Even in prison he was a powerful voice for the truth.”
Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics raged on X that Navalny “was brutally murdered by the Kremlin“.
And the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky raged: “It's clear Putin killed him.”
In Berlina crowd of about 500 to 600 people gathered on the city's Unter den Linden boulevard, singing in a mixture of Russian, German and English.
Some shouted 'Putin to The Hague', referring to the international criminal court investigation into possible war crimes committed in Ukraine.
Police used barriers to block the road between the Russian embassy and the crowd.
“Alexei Navalny is the leader of the Russian opposition and we have always had hope in his name,” said a Russian man, draped in a blue and white anti-war flag, giving his name only as Ilia.
In Lithuaniaformerly from Moscow but now a member of NATO and the European Unionprotesters placed flowers and candles near a portrait of Navalny.
“He was always with us, so it's all surreal,” said Lyusya Shtein, 26, a Pussy Riot activist who has lived in Vilnius since leaving. Russia in 2022.
“None of us understand what happened anymore,” she added.
In Russia itself, prosecutors warned Russians against participating in mass protests Moscow.
Police watched as some Russians came to lay roses and carnations at a monument to the victims of Soviet repression in the shadow of the former KGB headquarters.
Groups also gathered in Rome, Amsterdam, BarcelonaSofia, Geneva and The Hague.
More than a hundred demonstrators stood outside Russia London embassy, with signs calling Putin a war criminal.
While in Lisbon hundreds held a silent vigil.
Pavel Elizarov, a 28-year-old Russian who lives in… Portugalsaid Navalny had been “a symbol of freedom and hope.”
Near the Russian embassy in Paris, where about a hundred demonstrators gathered, Natalia Morozov said Navalny had also been a symbol of hope for her.
Navalny's wife Yulia was in Munich on Friday, where a vigil also took place.
She told the Munich Security Conference that she could not be sure her husband was dead because “Putin and his government… lie incessantly.”
Yulia said that if it was confirmed she wanted them to know that “they will bear the responsibility.”
On the other side of the Atlantic, during a vigil outside the Russian consulate New York City, Violetta Soboleva said she volunteered for Navalny's 2017 presidential campaign.
'I really believed that he was the one and that he could lead Russia to a better life future,” says Soboleva, a Russian who is studying for her doctorate in New York.
She continued: “And now we have lost this future forever.”
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