European officials non grata at the funeral of Boris Nemtsov
Le Monde.fr avec AFP | • Updated
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It is in a climate of tension that take place on Tuesday 3 March the funeral of the Russian opposition Boris Nemtsov in Moscow. These should be held in presence of the ambassadors of European countries and other foreign officials, including the head of the Lithuanian diplomacy Linas Linkevicius, the mayor of Riga, the Latvian capital, Nils Usakovs, and Polish Deputy Minister of Foreign Konrad Pawlik. But many Western politicians who wanted to attend were announced on Monday that he was denied entry into Russia.
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The President of the Polish Senate, Bogdan Borusewicz, told the Russian authorities refused him permission to go there in response to EU sanctions against Moscow. "I wanted to pay tribute to Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered at all Russians who think like he thought it. But I just learned that the Russian authorities will not let me attend his funeral in Moscow, "said former opposition anticommunist. According to the director of the Polish Institute of International Affairs, Marcin Zaborowski, all the Parliament's delegation to accompany Mr. Borusewicz has also denied Russian visa.
Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete, meanwhile, announced the evening tonight have been repressed in Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow. "After two hours of waiting, I was informed that the input law in Russia was denied to me on the basis of Article 27, paragraph 1 of their code. I asked what that meant exactly this article, but no one could explain it to me. »
SA WOMAN ON THE ROAD TO UKRAINE
Moreover, a few hours before the ceremony, the companion of Boris Nemtsov was allowed to leave Russia to return to Kiev. The latter, a Ukrainian model of 23 years, had witnessed his murder on the night of Friday 27 to Saturday 28 February, at the foot of the Kremlin. Ganna Douritska had said earlier, in an interview with cable TV station dojd opposition to be upheld in the country by the authorities .
"I do not know who did it (...) I do not know how the killer approached, he was behind me," she had then said, grateful to be currently "in a very difficult psychological state "and stressing want to go home in Ukraine, with his mother." I have the right to leave Russia, I'm not a suspect. I am a witness and I gave all the information I had, I did everything to assist investigators, "insisted the young woman.
Little information has filtered through to the time the work of the inquiry committee. This is "not intended to be real-time each of his progress," warned his spokesman Vladimir Markin. Russian investigators said keep all track: political crime as Islamist track because of the support of the opposition to the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, or that of a murder related to the Ukrainian conflict committed by "elements radicals. "
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