Alexei Navalny's body found with 'bruises’ on head, chest; Russian authorities stalling autopsy, says report
Alexei Navalny's head and chest were bruised. The development came as the legal team and the family of Alexei Navalny accused Russian authorities of not handing over his body and acting as "murderers" attempting to conceal their actions. “As an experienced paramedic, I can say that the injuries described by those who saw them appeared to be from convulsions.
… If a person is convulsing and others try to hold him down but the convulsions are very strong, then bruising appears. They also said he had a bruise on his chest — the kind that comes from indirect cardiac massage," the paramedic said. The reports claim that protocol was not followed in the case of Alexei Navalny as his body was first taken to Labytnangi town, near the prison, and then transferred to Salekhard district hospital.
But, the rules dictate the body of the people who die in prison must be first taken to the Bureau of Forensic Medicine on Glazkova Street for autopsy. “They drove him to the morgue, brought him in, and then stationed two policemen in front of the door. They might as well have put up a sign saying ‘Something mysterious is going on here!’ Of course, everyone wanted to know what had happened, what all the secrecy was about, and whether they were trying to hide something serious," the paramedic told Novaya Gazeta Europe.
The paramedic said that the doctors are skeptical about conducting an autopsy to find the reasons for Alexei Navalny's death as the case is political. He/She said that the doctors doesn't want to be a guilty party in the case, so they prefer to stall the autopsy. “Some said that an order had come from Moscow to await the arrival of specialists from the capital, while others said that the hospital doctors themselves had refused
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