The bruised body of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was brought to an Arctic hospital morgue Friday after he died in an Artic prison.
Bruises were spotted on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s head and chest when his body arrived at an Artic morgue, in a sign that he had experienced convulsions, a paramedic reportedly said.
Navalny was brought to the Salekhard District Clinical Hospital Friday after he died in the nearby Russian prison where he had been held ever since he was poisoned by a nerve agent in what is widely believed to have been an assassination attempt.
Bruises were spotted on Navalny’s head and chest when his body arrived, a paramedic told independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta Europe in a Sunday article.
“As an experienced paramedic, I can say that the injuries described by those who saw them appeared to be from convulsions,” the paramedic said. “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 added.
The paramedic noted it seems attempts were made to resuscitate the 47-year-old opposition leader before he died of cardiac arrest, however, “nobody is saying anything about why he had a cardiac arrest.
