07/03/2024 Standing Committee
Jacques Maire, a former member of the Assembly who prepared reports on Alexei Navalny’s arrest and detention, as well as on his poisoning, addressed members during today's current affairs debate on his death.
He described his meeting with Mr Navalny in Berlin in December 2020, a month before Navalny returned to Moscow, and presented extracts from a video recording of that meeting, which had not been public until now.
Mr Maire paid tribute to Mr Navalny's courage and vision, describing him as "a powerful man, totally determined" to bring change to Russia.