Members of Russia’s elite Federal Protection Service pack the excrement of President Vladimir Putin, at his request, during his travels and take it home in a strict surveillance scheme.
The data was revealed by two veteran journalists in Moscow, Russia, during a report by the French magazine ‘Paris Match’.
As detailed, the bodyguards collect Putin’s feces and put them in a kind of specialized packages. Later, they keep them in a briefcase and take them to the Russian capital.
The reason for this protocol, according to the ‘Fox News’ news agency, would be related to the fact that the Kremlin leader distrusts that someone can access his health status and use that information against him.
“While there is much speculation about Putin’s health, intelligence indicates that it is inconclusive,” a source told the aforementioned outlet.
“Unless he is terminally ill, Putin will probably be Russia’s president until 2024 and possibly 2036, as his popularity skyrocketed after the invasion of Ukraine,” the source added about the president’s future.
In the Parisian magazine report, the same Russian reporters say they found evidence during a Putin visit to France in May 2017 and another to Saudi Arabia in 2019.
However, it is not the only source that confirmed the fact.
So did Farida Rustamova, a former journalist from the ‘BBC’ news agency.
The woman published a thread on Twitter in which she assures that several people with whom she spoke in recent years, and whom she decided to keep anonymous, informed her that the Russian president has carried a portable toilet on his trips abroad “forever”. ”.
“Yesterday ‘Paris Match’ reported that Vladimir Putin is traveling abroad with a special suitcase. According to journalists from this medium, the bodyguards of the Russian president collect his excrement and deliver it to Moscow. Before, it was organized in a different way, but just as peculiar”, revealed Rustamova through the social network.
“Most of the time, these types of substances were destroyed,” he specified, and then added: “However, this was not the case during his visit to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna in 2020. The Kremlin leader went there with his own private bathroom . It is a special place and it is the same one that he now uses on board his plane,” she added.
Regarding the person who gave her the information, the former ‘BBC’ journalist said that it was an “old acquaintance of Putin” and gave more details about his behavior in the bathroom: “Normally, his guards also clean the facilities used by the head of state. Even more so when he is abroad.”
“It is thoroughly cleaned and all traces of Putin are removed. It is also checked that there is no fingerprint of his if he touched something.
All this because a single trace of his DNA could reveal if he has a hereditary disease or has children in other countries, “she completed.
Precisely, this recent report is released just a month after US intelligence reported that Vladimir Putin is supposedly being secretly treated for advanced cancer, a version that was declined by the Kremlin over and over again, especially by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
“President Putin appears publicly every day. You can see him on the screens, listen to his speeches. I do not think that people in his right mind can appreciate a symptom of illness in this man, ”Sergei Lavrov said during a press conference in early May.
