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After a phone call between Kremlin critic Alexej Navalny and an alleged assassin, his colleague Lyubov Sobol is investigated. A spokeswoman for the investigation committee said Friday in the Russian capital Moscow that criminal proceedings had been launched for breaking and entering against the opposition. You will be asked about it. The 33-year-old attorney’s apartment was previously searched.
Shortly after the call was published, Sobol filmed the police presence at the home of the alleged employee of the Russian national secret service FSB. She was later arrested and fined for allegedly defying the order of a police officer.
Possible imprisonment
Sobol is now being accused of having violated the “inviolability of the house through the use of force or threats” because she rang the bell on the agent’s door, said the head of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK), Ivan Zhdanov. In the worst case, you face a prison sentence for trespassing.
The investigation committee accuses Sobol of having tried several times with other people to want to enter the apartment of an elderly woman dressed in the uniform of the consumer protection authorities. A little later she pretended to be an “abandoned wife with a small child.” So Sobol entered the house and “broke into” the woman’s apartment and filmed in all the rooms with his cell phone.
“I just blatantly fabricated a criminal case”
Navalny harshly criticized the actions of the police. “This is not a state, it is a criminal group,” he said. “It’s just a blatantly fabricated criminal case.” All equipment in Sobol’s apartment was seized by security forces, including the seven-year-old daughter’s cell phone, Navalny wrote. The girl and the husband should have left the apartment.
Navalny, 44, is staying in Germany for rehabilitation after being badly poisoned. He blames an FSB “assassin squad” operating under the orders of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin for the poison attack with a Novichok group chemical warfare agent. A few days ago, Navalny posted a recording of a phone call with an alleged agent. In it, the man says that the poison was placed in Navalny’s underwear.
Doctors from the Berlin Charité had published a medical report on the poisoning in the journal “The Lancet”. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, according to the Interfax agency: “We do not read any medical publications.” The Kremlin had rejected his involvement in the case on several occasions. (apa, dpa)
