Panic on the Internet

Petersburg Nazis promise to continue terror

The other day, St. Petersburg operatives detained four young people suspected of organizing an extensive network of Nazi youth groups, as well as in a series of small explosions in different districts of the Northern capital in 2008-2010....

The other day, St. Petersburg operatives detained four young people suspected of organizing an extensive network of Nazi youth groups, as well as in a series of small explosions in different districts of the Northern capital in 2008-2010.

As Novaya Gazeta was told in the investigative department at the city prosecutor's office, in early February, detectives managed to identify two alleged bombers - 21-year-old Igor Gritskevich and Vladimir Smirnov. According to law enforcement agencies, there may be about ten acts of intimidation on the account of the detainees.

Law enforcement officials believe that Smirnov and Gritskevich intended to "cleanse the city of persons of a non-titular race", since both are former members of the banned movement "Russian National Unity", and now members of the Slavic Union "Varyag" (one of the offshoots of the St. Petersburg nationalist movement "Slavic Union”, whose members are divided into theorists of Nazism and specialists in subversive affairs). Specialists, according to the security officials, were Vladimir Smirnov and Igor Gritskevich. According to law enforcement agencies, all crimes were committed by them in places where people from the North Caucasus and Central Asia lived or worked. The cases were also united by the similarity of IEDs, methods and types of explosions. It was the scheme and style of work of the bombers that helped the detectives to get on their trail.

For a long time, employees of the Center "E" of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region checked the information posted on extremist websites on the Internet. As a result, several more suspects were identified in the series of crimes being investigated. Two were arrested over the weekend. According to investigators, the detainees - 20-year-old resident of the Tyumen region Valentin Mumzhiev and 19-year-old St. Petersburg resident Georgy Timofeev - are members of the National Socialism - White Power group (also known as NS-WP Nevograd). They are suspected of the murder of Ghanaian citizen Solomon Gwadzho in St. Petersburg on December 25, 2009, as well as in blowing up a trolley on the Oktyabrskaya railway on February 2, 2010 (see Novaya, No. 11 of 03.02.2010).

According to detectives, after the arrests, panic began among the Nazis. They openly discussed on their website who else was detained, who was being searched, who managed to escape. And on February 8, as a response to law enforcement agencies, an “emergency appeal” from NS-WP Nevograd appeared on the Web: “We hasten to please you that the terror continues ... Soon you will realize that the Negro from Ghana is only the beginning of your end.”