“It’s a gift for Putin,” reacts Franco-Russian journalist and historian Galia Ackerman

The announcement of the death, Friday February 16, in a penal colony of Alexeï Navalny “is a real shock”reacts this Friday on franceinfo the Franco-Russian journalist and historian Galia Ackerman. “We knew that Navalny was in serious danger because he had been put in solitary confinement. (…) But we didn’t think it would happen so quickly, he was only 47 years old”she adds.

“He was someone who wanted to be optimistic, who hoped that he would come out and that the Putin regime would collapse”remembers Galia Ackerman. “In this colony he was in the harshest conditions. He almost never left the dungeon, so even if he was not murdered – even if we will never know – then he died of illness and exhaustion “assures Galia Ackerman.

“A gift for Putin”

Officially, the Russian prison administration indicates that the opponent of Vladimir Putin felt ill and lost consciousness. “Already there is a lie in this announcement from the prison authorities quite simply because when we are in the cell, there is no walk. So we do not know where he lost consciousness, what happened in reality , if he was beaten to death”says the journalist and historian. “In any case, for the Kremlin shortly before the presidential election it is once again a gift for Putin, because Navalny called for voting for all candidates except Putin”she assures.