ナワリヌイ氏の独房模した箱、パリに設置

【パリ（フランス）ＡＦＰ＝時事】フランス・パリ中心部で１４日、ロシア語で監房を意味する言葉が大きな赤字で書かれたコンクリート製の箱が一般公開された。ロシアの反体制派アレクセイ・ナワリヌイ氏が収監されている独房を模したもので、同氏が置かれている窮状を知ってもらおうと支持者が設置した。（写真は、ランス・パリに設置された、ロシアの反体制派アレクセイ・ナワリヌイ氏が収監されている独房を模した箱を訪れた一般市民や活動家）
　ルーブル美術館のすぐ裏に置かれたこの灰色の薄暗い箱の中には、小さな流しと便器のほか、日中は収納が可能な簡易ベッドがある。
　ナワリヌイ氏には横領などの罪で懲役９年が科されている。これについて支持者は、ウラジーミル・プーチン政権を批判した罰とみている。ナワリヌイ氏は過去半年のうち１００日以上を、この箱のような独房で過ごしてきた。
　来場者の一人は、ナワリヌイ氏は「動物のようにおりの中に」閉じ込められていると語った。また昨年ロシアを出国したという反体制派の活動家は、「われわれが耐え忍ぶべきではない生活だ」と指摘した。
　箱の側面には、「ナワリヌイを出してプーチンを入れろ！」という支持者が書いたメッセージも見える。
　米ハリウッドでは、ナワリヌイ氏に関する映画がアカデミー賞を受賞したばかり。支持者によると、ナワリヌイ氏の警備があまりに厳重で、同氏が受賞を把握しているかどうか不明だという。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/16-14:59）

A small concrete box marked with the word SHIZO (punishment cell in Russian) in giant red letters sits incongruously next to a 13th-century church just behind the Louvre museum in Paris.
The grey box is a mock-up of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's punishment prison cell that his team unveiled in the French capital on Tuesday.
The top enemy of Russian President Vladimir Putin is being guarded so closely that his team said they still did not know if the 46-year-old was aware a film about him got an Oscar.
Martine Fuguet, one of the visitors, said Navalny was being kept in a cage like an animal.
Vsevolod Tlelov, an opposition activist who fled Russia last year, said the installation represented a different universe.
This is the life we don't deserve.
Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence on embezzlement and other charges that his supporters see as a punishment for him challenging the Kremlin.
His team set up the replica of his cell -- a prison inside a prison -- in Paris to raise awareness of the dire conditions he's held in.
The installation mirrors a punishment cell where Navalny has spent more than a hundred days over the past six months.
Inside the dimly lit box is a little sink, a toilet on the ground and a simple bed, which is folded away during the day.
Supporters scribbled messages of support on the outer side of the box including Navalny out, Putin in!
- 'I think he knows' -
Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said it was not clear if Russia's top opposition figure knew that a film examining his poisoning had won the Oscar for best documentary feature on Sunday.
I think he knows, Yarmysh told AFP on the sidelines of the ceremony.
One of his lawyers was able to tell him the news during a recent court hearing, she added. We know that he had heard something, she said.
Navalny told the lawyer he was grateful, Yarmysh added.
She said maintaining contact with Navalny was hard, adding he was being denied medical treatment.
Navalny was poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-made nerve agent, in 2020. He barely survived, and accused Putin of being behind the attack.
Ivan Zhdanov, head of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund, said it was important to raise awareness of the monstrous conditions Navalny was being held in.
If Alexei becomes free, Putin will not be in power, he added.
The installation arrived from Germany and will remain in Paris for two weeks. It is open to the public day and night.