In a video message on Thursday, Lyudmila Navalnaya said she was driven to a morgue on Wednesday evening where authorities showed her the body.
Navalnaya said she recorded the video because she was being threatened into agreeing to a secret funeral for her son and that the authorities refused to give his body unless she agreed to their terms.
“They want it to be done secretly, without a goodbye. They want to bring me to the edge of the cemetery, to a fresh grave and say: ‘Here lies your son.’ I don’t agree to that,” she said.
“They say that if I don’t agree to a secret burial, they will do something with my son’s body.”
Navalnaya said the investigators told her: “Time is not on your side, the corpse decomposes.”
The Kremlin appears to be trying to make sure Navalny’s funeral does not turn into a public show of support for the opposition leader.
“Authorities fear Navalny’s funeral could turn into a political action,” wrote Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center.
Navalny is dead and Putin is STILL terrified of his influence andwhat he stood for. What a scared-shitless baby. A fucking wannabe strongman coward. He is kept awake at night worried that Navalny’s death will be a catalyst to the people to overturn his regime and hold him to account for his crimes against his people and humanity in general. And he should be. I hope it happens. The ripple of such an event would be huge and leave the world better for it.
Deep down Putin know that, to cite a nice movie, “ideas are bulletproof”
I bet he wishes he could just throw that particular idea out of the window.