Group calls for investigation into authorities who were protecting Navalny – 2024-08-31 11:58:49

A group of doctors and health workers addressed the Russian president today, Vladimir Putinto request that a criminal case be opened against the officials of the Arctic prison where the opposition leader died last February, Alexei Navalny.

“Navalny’s death occurred as a result of negligent performance of duties by prison officials”the statement said.

For this reason, around 100 doctors have submitted a petition to the head of the Kremlin and the Russian Investigative Committee (RIC) to open a criminal investigation into the matter.

“We demand that you ensure an open and independent investigation into the politician’s death, which is supported by millions of Russian citizens.”he points out.

Doctors recall that they have repeatedly appealed to the president in the past to ensure that Navalny receives the necessary medical assistance, but that the answers were always “formal.”

“Even if we accept that the reason for Navalny’s death was not violent, you are responsible, as you ignored the opinion of experts from the medical community about the threat to life posed by the conditions of Alexei’s detention.”they stressed.

Doctors say that if the cause of death was a combination of hypertension, vascular damage and diffuse myocardiosclerosis, the prison doctors should have prescribed antihypertensive therapy and prevented him from being sent to the punishment cell.

«Alexei, however, was not prescribed antihypertensive therapy and was regularly sent to the punishment cell.»denounce.

According to the CIR, Navalny died of arrhythmia, a version that his widow Yulia He considered it “another rather pathetic attempt to hide the fact that what happened was a murder.”

Along the same lines, doctors consider that, in reality, the official version is “fabricated and pursues the aim of hiding the real reasons for Navalny’s death.”

Yulia Navalnaya, who has vowed to continue her fight, blames Navalny’s death squarely on the Russian president, whom her husband already accused of ordering his poisoning in 2020.

Putin responded that he had authorized the exchange of his greatest enemy, but that the latter died suddenly behind bars before the exchange was completed. EFE (I)