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"Alexei Navalny’s mother has said she has been shown the body of her son but
that the authorities were “blackmailing” her into burying him in a secret
ceremony without mourners.
In a video message on Thursday, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she was driven to a
morgue on Wednesday evening where authorities showed her the body.
Navalnaya said she recorded the video because she was being threatened into
agreeing to a secret funeral for her son and that the authorities refused to
give her his body unless she agreed to their terms.
“They want it to be done secretly, without a goodbye. They want to bring me to
the edge of the cemetery, to a fresh grave and say: here lies your son. I don’t
agree to that,” she said.
“They say that if I don’t agree to a secret burial, they will do something with
my son’s body.”
Navalnaya said the investigators threatened to let her son’s body rot unless he
is buried in secret. “Time is not on your side, corpses decompose,” she was
told.
She said she wanted everyone for whom Navalny’s death was “a personal tragedy”
to have an opportunity to say goodbye to him."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
