Milano: fiori per Nalvalny (Facebook Annaviva)
Milan, flowers in memory of Navalny: Digos intervenes
On the afternoon of Sunday 18 February, Digos identified a dozen people in Milan who wanted to honor the memory of Alexei Navalny placing some flowers under the plaque in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Corso Como. The person who intervened was a passing patrol destined for another service.
The Annaviva association: “We had only come to lay some flowers…”
Among the people identified were some members of the association Annaviva, which promotes freedom of the press and protection of human rights in Eastern Europe. He told Repubblica Marina Davydova: “After the killing of Navalny we mobilized and went to place flowers in Corso Como, we wanted to have a moment of contemplation, but there were few of us, a dozen at most. We found ourselves under the plaque for Anna Politkovskaja, great Russian journalist murdered in Moscow on 7 October 2006: her murder was neither the first nor the last in the long list of crimes committed against the dozens and dozens of journalists and opponents of Putin’s regime. We had created a Facebook event and unlike of other initiatives that we have promoted, in this case we did not ask for authorization because it was just a laying of flowers. We were from the association and some Russian citizens also came, but as soon as we arrived on site three people approached and started to ask those present for documents”.
Sensi (Pd): “What country are we in?”
The matter immediately became political. With Senator Pd Filippo Sensi who proposed a parliamentary question to the Minister of the Interior Piantedosi. “We will demand an account of what country we are”, he wrote on Azione, Italia Viva, +Europa and other political forces have already joined.