To keep the memory of a man alive, even several thousand kilometers from his native country. On Monday, the council of the 16th arrondissement of Paris voted unanimously for a wish to name a 16th century alley after the Russian lawyer, ardent defender of the fight against corruption and freedom: Alexeï Navalny, died in prison on February 16.
This proposal came from Francis Szpiner, mayor (LR) of the western Parisian district, Paris councilor and senator of the capital. She therefore received a real plebiscite from her peers. A fierce opponent of Vladimir Putin’s regime, Alexei Navalny died in a remote Arctic prison in circumstances that have yet to be clarified.
If the reasons for his death remain unclear since the announcement of the tragedy, Vladimir Putin would not have ordered the death of Alexeï Navalny “at this specific moment”, in particular because of the “timing” before the Russian elections, according to several agencies intelligence, including the CIA.
Russian authorities claimed that the opponent of the regime died of natural causes, but those close to Alexei Navalny accuse them of murder. His widow, Yulia Navalnaïa, even goes so far as to directly accuse Vladimir Putin of having “killed” her ex-husband.
“In a system as tightly controlled as Putin’s Russia, it is unlikely that Navalny could have suffered harm without the president being informed first,” noted European officials, cited in an article in the Wall Street Journal .
