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Why was alexander litvinenko poisoned.
7 December 2006 was a rainy day in London. A few people gathered at Highgate Cemetery for the funeral of Alexander Litvinenko.
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They were met at the entrance by cameramen and photographers, who were not allowed in by the police. Boris Berezovsky was among the small group of people who gathered at the coffin of the deceased, in the company of the exiled Chechen leader Akhmed Zakayev.
Litvinenko’s father also came from Russia, and his half-brother Maxim from Italy.
They all gathered around the widow Marina Litvinenko. Berezovsky’s colleague Alex Goldfarb told them in a whisper that it took a good two weeks for the British authorities to allow the burial of the deceased.
Alexander litvinenko wifeAs soon as he died, his body was taken to an unknown location and the hospital was disinfected. The pathologists who carried out the autopsy were reportedly wearing anti-radiation equipment, he added. Only after all this had been done was the body handed over to the family in a specially welded coffin