Navalny sentenced to serve 2 years and 8 months in prison – Corriere.it

Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 2 years and 8 months in prison by a judge of the Simonovsky District Court, who met for the occasion in Moscow. Vladimir Putin’s main opponent was sentenced in 2014 to 3 years and 6 months in prison for the Yves Rocher case, a sentence that had been suspended after Navalny served 10 months under house arrest: today the Simonovsky court found him guilty of having raped systematically the law. terms of probation, and therefore sentenced him to serve the remainder of his sentence in a penal colony. After being poisoned in August, in fact, Navalny had been treated in Berlin and no longer submitted to parole: this is why the Kremlin had threatened to arrest him, in an attempt to force him into exile. Instead, Navalny returned to Russia on January 17 and was immediately arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetevo Airport, where his Aeroflot flight was due to land at Vnukovo Airport, 56 kilometers away, where clashes were taking place in the meantime. between the police and their supporters. he had been kidnapped: after kissing his wife Yulia, the opponent had turned himself in to the police. Some did not want me to take a single step as a free man in my country, Navalny said in a 16-minute statement, referring to Putin. We know who and we know why: the hatred and fear of a man living in a bunker, whom I offended by surviving when he tried to kill me. This is his only method: even if he pretends to be a great politician, he will go down in history as a poisoner. There were diplomats in the court who, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, are evidence of Western attempts to detain Russia or an attempt, Zakharova said, to psychologically pressure the judge. The sentence was imposed on him in 2014 together with his brother Oleg, who fulfilled it in full: they were accused of embezzlement against the French cosmetics house Yves Rocher; in a process that the European High Court of Human Rights had defined as misleading and unreasonable. As the guardian, the court decision makes Navalny the top Russian political prisoner since the 2005 arrest of oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky. It is not difficult to lock myself in a cage. This is all happening to many close friends, Navalny said, referring to the 5,000 arrests made over the weekend, including his wife Yulia, during anti-government demonstrations, when tens of thousands of people peacefully took to the streets of Russia armed. with a bath. brushes and toilet paper to protest their arrest and they were beaten and arrested. They are incarcerating one to scare millions.