Alexei Navalny’s explosive statement in court: “He doesn’t know how to argue, only murder, he’ll be remembered as Vladimir, the poison mixer”

The Russian opponent Alexei Navalny denounced this Tuesday that his appearance in court was an attempt to “scare millions of Russians” and went back to accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of ordering his nerve gas poisoning last summer.

“He will go down in history as the poison mixer”, he said in court. ‘You know, there was a certain Alexander (II) the Liberator and a certain Yaroslav the Wise. And we will have Vladimir, the Poisoner ”.

The opponent emphasized that “everyone is convinced that he (Putin) is a simple three-to-fourth official, who was appointed by accident. Never participated in a debate. Their only way to fight is murder ”.

Navalny felt that the true purpose of the trial is “Scare Large Numbers of People”.

“They imprison one of them to scare millions of people”, the opponent said in court, after which he could be sentenced to two and a half to three and a half years in prison for violating, according to authorities, his judicial control.

However, recalling the repression and arrest of thousands of people during the demonstrations over the past two weekends, Navalny added that he hoped more and more people would take notice. “That it is impossible to imprison millions or hundreds of thousands of people.”

“When they realize it, and that moment will come, they will see that the whole country cannot be locked up”, he assured.

Here’s Navalny’s full statement:

I would like to start by discussing the legal issue, which seems to me to be of paramount importance and is a little overlooked in this discussion. There are two people sitting there and one of them says, let’s lock Navalny up for showing up [para reunirse con sus oficiales de libertad condicional] Monday, not Wednesday. And the other says, let’s lock up Navalny because he didn’t show up right after he got out of the coma. But I would like everyone to remember that the essence of this trial is to lock me up for a case in which I have already been acquitted, a case that has already been recognized as fabricated.

If we look at the criminal statutes, Your Honor, I hope you’ve already done this once or twice, then we’ll see that the European Court of Human Rights is a party [del sistema de justicia ruso] and its decisions are final. The Russian Federation half recognized this decision and even paid me a fee here. In spite of this, my brother spent 3.5 years in prison for the same case. I was under house arrest for a whole year for this case.

Let’s do some math. The verdict was in 2014, it is now 2021, and I am still being prosecuted for this. Why this case exactly? There is a reason and it is not because there is a shortage of criminal charges against me. Someone wanted to arrest me the moment I crossed the border [después de regresar de Alemania].

The explanation is the hatred and fear of a man: a man hiding in a bunker. I mortally insulted him by surviving. I survived it thanks to good people, thanks to pilots and doctors. And then I committed an even more serious crime: I did not run or hide. Then something really scary happened: I took part in the investigation of my own poisoning and we show that Putin was in fact responsible for this assassination attempt. And that’s what drives this little thief in his bunker crazy. As a result, he just goes nuts.

Because everyone was convinced that he was just a bureaucrat accidentally appointed to his post. He has never taken part in a debate. Their only way to fight is murder. He will go down in history as nothing more than a poison mixer. We all remember Alejandro the Liberator [Alejandro II] and Yaroslav the Wise [Yaroslav I]. Now we have Vladimir the poison mixer.

The most important thing about this whole test is not what’s happening to me. Locking myself up isn’t difficult. The important thing is why this is happening. This is done to intimidate large numbers of people. They lock up one person to scare millions of people.

I hope people don’t see this process as a sign that they should be more scared. This is not a sign of strength, it is a sign of weakness. Neither hundreds of thousands nor millions can be locked up. I sincerely hope people realize this. And it will. Because you can’t lock up the whole country.

The only thing that grows [Rusia] is the number of billionaires. Everything else decreases. I am locked in a prison cell and I only hear on television that butter is getting more expensive. The price of eggs is going up. They have robbed these people of a future.

Everything I say now reflects my attitude to the staging they put together here. This is what happened when anarchy and tyranny became the essence of a political system, and it is terrible.

But it is even worse when anarchy and tyranny masquerade as prosecutors dressed in the robes of a judge. It is every person’s duty to defy it and defy those laws.

I fight as best I can and will continue to do so, even though I’m now under the control of people who like to smear everything with chemical weapons. My life isn’t worth a penny, but I’ll do my best to make the law triumph. And I greet all honest people across the country who are unafraid and take to the streets. Because they have the same rights as you. This land belongs to them, just like you.

I want to say that there are many good things in Russia now. The best are the people who are not afraid, the people who don’t look the other way, who will never hand over our country to the officials who want to exchange it for palaces and discos.

I demand my immediate release and the release of all political prisoners. This achievement [de la corte] It’s illegal.

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