Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe
Were politically motivated. His body was not handed over by the authorities for several days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. Since her husbands death, Yulia Navalnaya has held talks with Foreign Ministers and us president joe biden, and she has vowed to carry on the worker husband has done for several years now. We will keep an eye on this and take you back life to strasbourg as soon as see Yulia Navalnaya address those meps. To australia now, where its been announced that police in sydney will be able to attend mardi gras this weekend. A decision had been taken to un invite police from the parade. After senior constable Beaumont Lamarre condon allegedly killed jesse baird who he had previously dated and his partner luke davies last monday. The bodies of the couple were found yesterday. The suspect was charged late last week after handing himself in, our News Reporter in sydney, Simon Atkinson has more. This event is taki