NS\/WP gang members convicted

On December 9, 2011, the Boksitogorsk City Court of St. Petersburg recognized guilty members of the National socialism group / White power (NS / WP - "national socialism / white power") Mark Filippov and Alexander Nikitin in the murder of 17-year-old Nazi skinhead from Moscow Svyatoslav Batyuk.

Taking into account his earlier sentence for robbery, the Boksitogorsk court sentenced M. Filippov to 11 years of real imprisonment, and A. Nikitin to 8 years of actual imprisonment.

Recall that S. Batyuk was a member of the Moscow group "Autonomous Slavic resistance” (Members of the Autonomous Slavic resistance" were convicted by the Moscow City Court in March 2011 for a series of hate-motivated murders and attempted murders, and for organizing several explosions). He hid from persecution law enforcement agencies from their associates from the NS / WP group, residents the city of Pikalevo, Boksitogorsky district, Leningrad region, A. Nikitin and M. Filippov.

Law enforcement officers of St. Petersburg went on the trail S. Batyuk, investigating a criminal case on undermining a trolley near Finland Station. In mid-March 2010, during a search of a place where the Moscow neo-Nazi allegedly lived, the police found three improvised explosive devices. And in the freezer of the refrigerator cut brushes two hands and the head of S. Batyuk. A criminal case was initiated, in which M. Filippov and A. Nikitin were detained .

According to investigators, the young people met on the forum of one of nationalist sites in the summer of 2009. Later, neo-Nazis from St. Petersburg filmed him housing in Pikalevo and supplied with food. According to the testimony of Filippov and Nikitin, Batyuk, forced them to engage in robberies. The murder happened at the beginning of February. 2010. After that, a video appeared on one of the nationalist sites "A lesson to all who decided to leave the path of struggle" with footage of the murder.

Sources

• Sentence passed in the case of the murder of a skinhead from Moscow // Fontanka.ru. 2011. December 12.