Russian President Vladimir Putin must be “held personally responsible” and “punished” for the atrocities against Alexei Navalny, who died in prison on Friday, reacted his wife Yulia Navalna from Germany.
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“If this is true, I want Putin, his entire staff, his entire entourage, his entire government, his friends to know that they will be punished for what they have done to our country, to my family and to my husband.” They will be brought to justice and that day will come soon,” declared Yulia Navalnaïa very moved from the podium of the Munich Security Conference.
“I wondered whether I should stay here in front of you or return to my children, and I wondered what Alexei would have done in my place, and I'm sure he would have stood here on this stage,” confided she addressed her and began a short statement that was greeted with long applause by the participants of this conference, which every year brings together the elite of world diplomacy.
Ms Navalnaïa called on the international community to hold Vladimir Putin accountable.
“I would like to appeal to the international community, to all the people of the world, to come together and fight against this evil, against this terrible regime that is raging in Russia today, so that this regime and Vladimir Putin personally are detained.” “We are responsible for all the atrocities they have committed in our country in recent years,” she said.
In Munich she met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who expressed his condolences and reiterated that Russia was “responsible” for the death of its Russian enemy.
Mr. Navalny’s mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya, said she “didn’t want to hear expressions of condolences.”
“I saw my son in the colony (prison) on the 12th, we met. He was alive, healthy and happy,” she wrote on Facebook, according to Novaya Gazeta newspaper.