War in Ukraine Navalny calls on his compatriots in Russia to demonstrate: "If the prisons have to be filled, we will fill them"
Alexei Navalny is guilty.
Again.
This time of large-scale fraud and offending a magistrate.
The sentence amounts to nine years in a maximum security prison, which could be added in whole or in part to the two and a half that he is already serving.
He is exposed to remain in prison until 2032.
"
Navalny
committed a fraud, an appropriation of other people's property through deception and breach of trust," Judge
Margarita Kotova
said .
Since last year
Navalny
has been in a prison in eastern
Moscow
for violating probation while in a coma for a toxic substance that several investigations link to the Russian security services.
Navalny
accused President
Vladimir Putin
of being behind the attack.
forbidden dissent
The screen today showed an emaciated
Navalny
appearing with his lawyers in a room full of prison guards.
Meanwhile, the court read the litany of accusations against him.
Russian media report that justice wants to send him to a maximum security penal colony.
Russian authorities have portrayed
Navalny
and his supporters as subversives bent on destabilizing
Russia
with
Western
backing .
All dissent has been banned in the face of a difficult year for the Kremlin: the new
Western
sanctions have wreaked havoc on the daily lives of Russians, who despite censorship watch on social media what their army is doing in
Ukraine
.
Most of
Navalny
's allies have long since fled
Russia
to avoid facing fines, jail or being confined at home.
enemy of the people
Navalny
, 45, spent years being ignored by the Russian media.
In 2020 he was intoxicated and evacuated to
Germany
.
The Russian authorities changed their strategy and presented him out of doors as a Russian nationalist.
The Russians were told that he was an agent of the
West
.
Navalny
, ever defiant, was jailed last year on arrival at the airport when he returned to
Russia
after receiving medical treatment in
Germany
.
The
Kremlin
has always defended that there is no evidence that
Navalny
was poisoned and denies having anything to do with his health problems.
But
Vladimir Putin
still does not utter his name in public.
After the last court hearing on his case on March 15,
Navalny
wrote on
: "If prison time is the price of my right to say things that need to be said... then you can ask for 113 years. I will not give up." my words or my actions.
Navalny
's opposition to
Moscow
's military intervention
in
Ukraine
, expressed on social media, has forever cast him in the role of enemy of the state.
A State that, while "denazifying"
Ukraine
, does not tolerate another version than the official one.
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