In Izhevsk, the seller of items with Nazi symbols was brought to administrative responsibility

On January 20, 2009, it became known that the world court of the Pervomaisky district of Izhevsk (Udmurt Republic) brought to administrative responsibility a city dweller who traded in items with Nazi symbols.

The audit established that on October 25, 2008, in the "Army Souvenirs" department of the "World of Porcelain" store (Vadim Sivkov Street, 109), an individual entrepreneur Mikhail Kovalev, born in 1959, sold commission goods, among which were items with Nazi symbols and Nazi paraphernalia.

Belt buckles for privates and officers of the Luftwaffe, SS, Wehrmacht, badges of a crew member of torpedo boats, a member of a balloon observation unit, a parachutist, commemorative medals in honor of Hitler's rise to power, a silver cross of service in the NSDAP, military medals were seized from his department. "For the Winter Campaign in the East 1941/42", military merit, military merit cross, Reichswehr artillery uniform, portrait of Hitler. The seized items were found to be either genuine or replicas.

According to Kovalev, he purchased these items in Moscow exclusively for sale to members of historical reenactment clubs.

The World Court found Kovalev guilty under Part 2 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (manufacture, sale or purchase for the purpose of selling Nazi paraphernalia or symbols or paraphernalia or symbols confusingly similar to Nazi paraphernalia or symbols, aimed at promoting them) and ordered him to pay a fine of 2 thousand rubles with confiscation of all seized items.

Sources

• The prosecutor's office of the Pervomaisky district of the city of Izhevsk conducted an investigation into the distribution of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols // Prosecutor's Office of the Udmurt Republic.Ru. 2009. January 20.