Victim of poisoning during a trip to Siberia, transported and hospitalized in a coma on August 20 in Berlin, the Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, still recovering in Germany, expressed, Wednesday, January 13, his desire to return soon in his country.
” I survived. And now [le président russe Vladimir] Putin, who ordered my assassination, (…) told his servants to do everything so that I do not return “, he said in a video posted on his Instagram page, before adding that he had taken a ticket on a regular line dated January 17.
The 44-year-old opponent faces the threat of a prison sentence in Russia. Justice opened, on December 29, a criminal investigation against him. The case concerns “large-scale fraud”, a felony punishable by ten years of imprisonment.
A few days earlier, the prison administration had publicly threatened to turn an old suspended sentence into a real sentence if Mr. Navaly – still in Germany – did not respond to a summons the next day. But no follow-up had been given.