Russia
Navalny’s widow accuses Putin of satanism
“And no true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing now with the dead Alexei”: Navalny’s wife Yulia Navalnaya. photo
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Yulia Navalnaya wants to continue the political fight of her husband Alexei Navalny, who died in custody, against Kremlin leader Putin. Now she is making serious accusations against the president in a video message.
More than a week after the death of the Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny in the prison camp has urged his widow and daughter of President Vladimir Putin to hand over the body for a humane burial.
Putin, who describes himself as a devout Christian, mocks the remains of the dead man and displays “open Satanism,” said widow Yulia Navalnaya in a video message. “Hand over Alexei. They tortured him alive and continue to torture him dead,” she said. “They break every human and divine law.”
“Give Grandma my father’s body,” Navalny’s daughter Darya wrote on the social network Navalny’s widow accused Putin of continuing to torment Alexei’s mother and wanting to break her.
“Driven by hatred and desire for revenge”
Although Putin poses in Russian Orthodox churches with a candle in his hand and kisses icons, he is actually driven by hatred and a desire for revenge, said Yulia Navalnaya. “No, it’s not even hate, it’s satanism, paganism.” But faith is about goodness, about mercy, about redemption. “And no true Christian could ever do what Putin is doing now with dead Alexei.”
At the same time, the 47-year-old condemned Putin’s war against Ukraine, for which he also used the church. The Kremlin chief is leading the campaign against the West by relying on traditional values. “But you just kill, bomb sleeping civilians at night with rockets that were blessed in the church,” Navalnaya said. The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill, is a confidant of Putin and an ardent supporter of the war against Ukraine. Clergy repeatedly publicly bless rockets.
According to authorities, Navalny died on February 16 in the penal camp with the unofficial name “Arctic Wolf” in the Siberian Arctic region of Yamal. The circumstances of his death are not clear. The politician, weakened by the poison attack and repeated solitary confinement in the camp, is said to have collapsed during a tour of the icy prison yard and died despite attempts to resuscitate him. According to Navalny’s team, the death certificate mentions “natural” causes.