"It happened to me too in life to be identified, it is not a fact that compresses any personal freedom". These are the words of Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi, who yesterday commented on the identification by police in Milan of some citizens who were honoring Navalny's memory with flowers. "The identification of people is an operation that is normally done in security devices for territorial control," he concluded, "the personnel I was told did not have full awareness.” “We did nothing wrong. We were talking, we just had the idea of sharing grief," recounted Marina Davydova, of the Annaviva association, retracing what happened at the Anna Politkovskaya gardens in Milan: when people who arrived to commemorate Alexei Navalny and leave a flower were identified. "We were astonished, we and also the Italians who felt like in Russia and the Russians," she noted, "were so scared. These are people in Russia who fled the regime." "We gathered to commemorate Navalny, it was not a rally. We just wanted to leave a photo or a flower. About 10 people in silence. When we arrived," Davydova added, "there were already plainclothes personnel waiting for us. After a while, they asked everyone to identify themselves. We gave them no reason. They approached each person arriving and asked for ID and residence, which puzzled us because of the fact itself, not because of the manner, because we did nothing wrong: we just wanted to commemorate Navalny".
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