"Hold the funeral near Khovanskoye Cemetery in secret." How the auction for Navalny's body is proceeding.
Navalny's ally Ivan Zhdanov рассказал about the conditions that the investigator from Salekhard put forward to the mother Alexey Navalny in exchange for receiving the body.
According to Zhdanov, the politician's mother was summoned to the Investigative Committee on the morning of February 21, where she spent almost 24 hours. The investigator Varapaev He was constantly on the phone with his superiors from Moscow, not hiding the fact that he was “under Bastrykin’s command.”
«The bidding begins: choose a funeral home, choose any cemetery, and we'll go to the morgue now, show you the body, and tell you everything.“Zhdanov said.
After she saw the body, she was given three conditions.
First: Alexei Navalny is being transported to Moscow on a special flight, in secret.
Second: an Investigative Committee employee is with the mother at all times.
Third: the body is stored in one of the morgues in the Moscow or Vladimir region.
«We are afraid that the morgue will be stormed." - according to the mother, these are the words allegedly spoken by the investigator. Further To Lyudmila Navalnaya They stated that the Troekurovskoye Cemetery in Moscow, her chosen burial site, was unsuitable. The investigators were satisfied with the Khovanskoye Cemetery option, but the burial was to be held "in secret."
After the politician's mother refused and left, an investigator called her and threatened her with some information that could be published on the necessary resources.
The family does not insist on a re-examination and "demands that the body be released and buried properly":
«There is no reason to keep Alexei Navalny in the morgue right now to ensure he is released as expected.
Just over an hour ago, Alexei Navalny's mother said about threats and blackmail from investigator Varapaev, who allegedly promised that if she refused a secret burial, “something would be done” to her son’s body.
«Time is not working for you, the corpse is decomposing, — Lyudmila Navalnaya quoted the investigator's words. — They want to take me to the edge of the cemetery to a fresh grave and say: here lies your son. I don’t agree to this.”
According to her, her son's body was shown to her on the evening of February 21. The official death certificate listed "natural causes."
Article 8 of the Federal Law "On Burial and Funeral Services" obliges the investigator to release the body within two days after the cause of death has been established.
Investigators have not released Navalny's body for six days.
Already more than 85 thousand Russians have signed appeal to the head of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin with a demand to return the body of the deceased to his relatives.
UPD: According to Ivan Zhdanov, one of the key conditions in the negotiations is that the funeral hall where the politician's body will be laid to rest must be located near a cemetery.
«To prevent a large number of people from marching“,” Zhdanov explained.
Another condition is that people say goodbye in the hall, and only the family participates in the funeral.
«Don't allow the farewell. Don't allow the hero to lie in his coffin and have Muscovites flock to him and lay flowers."," the associate of the deceased politician clarified.
Zhdanov said that after threats from the investigator, he “fears for Lyudmila Navalnaya.”
UPD-2: Navalny's body remains in Salekhard. Investigators have been insisting from the very first days that they will only take it away on their own plane. At the Moscow airport, the body is being collected by a funeral service, but is escorted by security forces vehicles.
At some point, according to Zhdanov, the investigators said, "Take the body yourself and transport it on a private plane," but then quickly returned to their original position: "The plane is ours."
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