Mark Yaloman. The Master of Worms acquitted

The Master of Worms acquitted
Mark Yaloman

Publication date: February 20, 2004

In the middle of the day on April 21, 2001, the deputy editor-in-chief of the all-Russian magazine " Russian Host " A.V. Semiletnikov made a short, heartfelt speech on the threshold of his office in Yasenevo. Inspired by the performance, the listeners took part in “mass riots” at a nearby wholesale market, as a result of which about three dozen retail outlets were destroyed, and a corresponding criminal case was launched.

It took law enforcement agencies almost three years to bring the case to court. On Thursday, the jury found two defendants not guilty - the deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Russian Host" A. Semiletnikov and an employee of the same publication E. Lipilina. As RIA Novosti reports , three more defendants were found guilty, “but deserving of leniency.” According to the verdict, A. Pochukaev, V. Rusakov and E. Serzhantov are guilty only of participating in mass riots.

The successful outcome of the case was preceded by a fair amount of public activity. The editor-in-chief of the magazine "Great Russian Host" (the sign has changed in three years), Alexander Alekseevich Chervyakov, wrote an open letter in which he clearly indicated the ordered nature of the accusation. “But the Caucasian mafia demanded blood and long years in prison, the Jewish mafia supported its assistants in the destruction of the Great Russian people, and the investigation broke witnesses for three years with threats and beatings, extracting false, incriminating testimony from them. Now, when it seems to them that they have already broke and forced to slander each other, the Jewish authorities finally (after 3 years) dared to hold a trial,” he noted, in particular. The original spelling and punctuation have been preserved.

Whatever the final decision is made by the Moscow City Court, in whose power the guilty but deserving of leniency A. Pochukaev, V. Rusakov and E. Sergetov still remain, the job is done. Nazi leader A. Semiletnikov, acquitted by the jury, was released right in the courtroom. According to ten out of twelve jurors, the investigation failed to prove the defendant’s guilt.

No matter how much you strain your imagination, you cannot imagine a dozen randomly selected Muscovites as Nazi fans. It is obvious that on Hitler’s birthday they, unlike A.A. Chervyakov, do not distribute Mein Kampf, but on May 9 they will drink a glass and go to the Central Park of Culture and Culture. You can believe that for three years the investigation has not been able to prove the defendant’s guilt, although any search engine will give you 50 links with evidence without any operational measures. But, I think, the point is not in the imperfection of the investigation carried out by the “Jewish authorities”. Everything is significantly worse.

From the point of view of an impressive number of compatriots, young idiots armed with pipes really deserve leniency. The day before the landmark verdict , the Russian Jewish Congress sent out a press release to editorial offices calling on them to “call fascism fascism.” The jury - the fairest court in the world - answered this call with a verdict.

The persecution to which foreigners are subjected in both Russian capitals is not news to anyone. Skinheads regularly beat up blacks and Asians, and try to get at Caucasians, but this is much more dangerous, which is why our police officers specialize in the Caucasus. Western embassies and public organizations periodically issue appeals to the capital and federal authorities demanding that they curb the fascists, but all this goes into the sand: the governor will rant at a press conference, give orders to sort it out, but he himself knows for sure: in a couple of days everything will be forgotten. A nine-year-old Tajik girl walked with her dad from the skating rink, but didn’t make it home, ended up in the morgue - it happens. We have enough of our own problems, not other people's.

The worms huddle in the basements of working-class districts, raising their wretched shift. They do all sorts of little things: they destroy a wholesale tent, they break a black man’s head. If a Tajik goes from a construction site to a store for Doshirak, he will be caught.

An unpleasant phenomenon, of course. But, frankly speaking, not Transvaal...