“Putin killed him,” denounced the team of the Russian opposition, Alexei Navalny, after his mother received the death certificate this Saturday at the hands of prison officials.

“Navalny’s relatives and lawyer received official confirmation of Alexei’s death. (Russian President Vladimir) Putin killed him,” he wrote Kira Yarmyshspokesperson for the opposition, on his social network account X.

Yarmysh specified that the opponent He died at 2:17 p.m. local time (09:17 GMT)two hours before the prison services announced it publicly.

“Prison officials reported that Navalny’s body is located in Salekhard. The investigators of the Investigative Committee took him away.. Now, they are conducting ‘examinations,'” she said.

The spokeswoman added: “We demand that Alexei Navalny’s body be immediately handed over to his family.”

The mother, Liudmila Naválnaya, arrived this morning at the Arctic prison where On Friday his son died suddenlyalthough his coreligionists and Western foreign ministries accuse the Kremlin of murder.

According to Radio Liberty, Lyudmila Navalnaya flew this morning from Moscow to the city of Salekhard, in the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous district.

Next, The mother traveled by car to the town of Jarpwhere the IK-3 prison is located, to which his son was transferred last December.

Liudmila Naválnaya, who assured that she does not want to receive condolences, met with the opponent in that same place on February 12. “He was healthy and happy to be alive”the politician’s mother wrote on Facebook on Friday.

Navalny, 47, died suddenly on Friday in the “Polar Wolf” prison, according to the Russian penitentiary services.

The opposition and the Russian independent press, and the Western foreign ministries accused in unison to the Russian leader of ordering the assassination of Navalnythe Kremlin’s number one enemy for 15 years.

Navalny, who was serving a sentence of almost 30 years in prison, was transferred to the new penitentiary after announce a campaign against Putin’s re-election in the presidential elections in March.

Presidential spokesman Dmitri Peskov considered the accusations made by the West “unacceptable” before the results of the autopsy are known.