Moscow Investigators Charge Neo-Nazi Gang With Over 30 Attacks

Russian News and Information Agency “Novosti”
May 16, 2008

Moscow prosecutors have charged nine neo-Nazis with 32 attacks on ethnic minorities, including 19 murders and 13 attempted murders, according to a May 16, 2008 report by the ITAR-TASS news agency. 

The suspects, who include one young woman, are a mix of college students and minors. They allegedly committed their crimes between August 2006 and April 2007, usually late at night. The gang would pick a solitary ethnic minority as a victim, beat and stab him, then flee the scene.

Prosecutors allege that the attacks were all motivated by ethnic hatred, an assertion bolstered by extremist literature found in the suspects' possession and the ethnicity of their victims, who included Chinese, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz, and Azerbaijanis.  All face hate crimes murder (Article 105) charges and ethnic incitement (Article 282) charges; their case will soon be sent to the Moscow City Court.

 

 

 

 

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