Yulia Navalnayathe opponent’s widow Alexei Navalnywho died last week in a Russian prison, warned this Wednesday that they still do not know if the police will arrest “those who come to say their last goodbye” to her husband at the funeral scheduled for this Friday in Moscow.
In a speech before the European Parliament Twelve days after learning of her husband’s death, Navalnaya said that “he was tortured for three years, made to starve in a tiny cell, isolated from the outside world and without visits, calls and letters,” and then “killed.”
“Even after that, they mistreated his body and mistreated his mother,” lamented Navalnaya, who assured that the murder of her husband “shows once again that Putin is capable of anything and that you cannot negotiate with him.”
In a short and emotional speech, during which Naválnaya looked at the sky on several occasions and there was applause from a chamber full to the brim, the opposition leader’s widow wanted to tell the MEPs “what Alexei was like” to illustrate how, In his opinion, Europe has to be more creative if it wants to defeat the regime of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.
«You have elections in June and many of you will campaign, meet voters, give interviews and record ads. Now imagine that all this is impossible, that no television wants to interview you, that there is no money in the world to promote the advertisement and that the voters who go to the rallies are arrested.said Navalnaya. «Welcome to Putin’s Russia»he added.
Her husband, she continued, managed to become one of the leaders of the Russian opposition by “experimenting”, learning to make videos on YouTube, designing a tactical voting strategy to win seats or passing messages to his team even from prison.
«If you really want to overthrow Putin, you have to be innovative and stop being boring. “You cannot harm him with another resolution or another package of sanctions that is in no way different from the previous ones, or by thinking that he is someone who has moral principles.”Navalnaya insisted.
To defeat someone who is the “leader of a criminal organization” like Putin, said Navalny’s widow, European Union governments have to focus on “his friends, associates and those who have his mafia money.” , like the “discreet lawyers” in European countries who “help Putin hide his money.”
Navalnaya, who has already advanced her intention to continue her husband’s fight, assured that Putin “must answer” for what he has done to Russia, Ukraine and Navalny himself, who will no longer fulfill his dream of seeing “what the future will be like.” beautiful Russia of the future.
“I will do everything possible to make your dream come true,” he concluded to long applause from the chamber.
The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsolawho met with Naválnaya before the speech, assured for his part that the hope that the opposition leader represented and that his captors wanted to extinguish “remains brighter than ever.”
«The many brave people who took to the streets of Russia after his death demonstrate, once again, the fragility of authoritarianism. I take solace in the fact that if history teaches us anything, it is that the pillars of autocracy, in the end, always crumble under the weight of their own corruption and the people’s inherent desire to live freely. And when they inevitably do, it will be thanks to what Alexei and his family did. »Metsola said. EFE (I)
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