Navalny thought his trial was a joke and was waiting for Putin
The Moscow Regional Court refused to overturn the Khimki City Court's decision to extend the detention of opposition blogger Alexei Navalny for 30 days, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
He was detained on January 17 at the airport after returning from Germany, where he was undergoing treatment after an alleged poisoning, at the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Navalny violated the terms of serving a suspended sentence for fraud at the Yves Rocher cosmetics company.
During the meeting, Navalny called the judges “obedient slaves of the criminal regime,” launched into a political speech and again called on supporters to take to the streets.
The blogger admitted that the authorities’ actions against him came as a complete surprise.
“I even thought it was a Prank program.” That the backstage will now disperse, laughing people will come out, Putin will come out and say: “Ha ha, Alexey, this is how we decided to joke with you. After all, you haven’t been to our country for five months. Everything is fine,” Navalny said.
On February 2, the Simonovsky Court will begin to consider the request of the Federal Penitentiary Service to replace Navalny’s suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case with a real one.
Navalny thought his trial was a joke and waited for Putin.