Navalny’s mother has already seen her son’s body, but accuses Russian authorities of planning a “secret funeral”

Alexei Navalny’s mother Lyudmila Navalnaya, said this Thursday that Russian authorities are “planning a secret funeral” for his son, according to reports Reuters. Lyudmila, in statements made for a YouTube video, says she does not agree with the decision.

“They want it to be done secretly, without goodbyes. They want to take me to the edge of the cemetery, to a fresh grave and say: here is your son. I don’t agree with that,” he says.

In the same video, she also says that she has already seen her son’s body and that Russian authorities threatened her, saying that if she did not agree to a secret funeral, they would do something with Navalny’s body.

This Thursday, Navalny’s team also reported that his death certificate indicated that he died of natural causes.

European Union diplomacy chief Josep Borrell said several G20 members today questioned Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov about the death of Alexei Navalny, but he chose to remain silent.

“It was discussed around the table, some people questioned it,” Josep Borrell began by telling a small group of journalists on the sidelines of the final day of meetings of the heads of diplomacy of the world’s 20 largest economies. in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, January.

“Silence from the Russian side,” summed up the head of EU diplomacy.