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They didn’t want to go under the Surgeon’s knife
The massacre arranged by the "Night Wolves" - a criminal showdown or an attempt to build a motor vertical of power?
On October 20, in Zelenograd, in one of the garage cooperatives where the Three Roads bike club is based, there was a fight and a shootout between the owners and uninvited guests - representatives of the Night Wolves bike club, whose leader is Alexander Zaldostanov, notorious even to the President of Russia ( Surgeon).
On October 20, in Zelenograd, in one of the garage cooperatives where the Three Roads bike club is based, there was a fight and a shootout between the owners and uninvited guests - representatives of the Night Wolves bike club, whose leader is Alexander Zaldostanov, notorious even to the President of Russia ( Surgeon).
According to eyewitnesses, the attacking "wolves" were about sixty people, and they arrived in 17 cars. In the hands - trunks, axes, knives and telescopic batons. With shouts: "Let's kill, bitches!" - "guests" began to beat visitors, including three members of the Three Roads motorcycle club and the girl who was with them.
According to the initial testimonies of the victims, Yuri Nekrasov, a three-roader, threw a tear gas grenade in self-defense and, along with other bikers, barricaded himself in the garage. When the attackers tried to break down the gate, Nekrasov, sticking the barrel of a hunting rifle into the doorway, fired nine shots.
As a result, an activist of the Sevastopol branch of the Night Wolves, Valery Roditelev (Bely), received a gunshot wound to the stomach and died on the way to the hospital, while his “colleague” Alexei Yaroshevich was taken to intensive care.
Soon the police arrived at the scene and detained Nekrasov, but they could not detain any of the attackers. A little later, one of the “three-roaders” appeared at the police, whom the Night Wolves allegedly took as a hostage, but then they beat him and released him.
Information from Novaya Gazeta: Three Roads M *motoclub was founded in Zelenograd in 2006. Number - 7 people. Leader - Evgeny Vorobyov (Gesha). The gathering place is the Oktyabrsky garage cooperative. They have their own car service and cafe. But we are all united: “Brotherhood, Road, Motorcycle.”*
There are several versions of what happened. The first is commercial . Allegedly, the initiator of the "collision" was the leader of the local Zelenograd "wolves", 47-year-old Ivan Evdokimov, who was fed up with competitors from the "Three Roads". Mr. Evdokimov is a well-known person in the city: under the auspices of United Russia, he organizes sports events for young people and jeep races. And, as they say, in addition to sponsorship from businessmen, he is also thinking about using funds from the city budget. In turn, the “three-road workers” also often turned to local merchants for help, and their leader Yevgeny Vorobyov, in the recent past, worked in a municipal institution for conducting leisure and educational work with children and adolescents and has good connections in the administration of Zelenograd.
The second version is conceptual and political, to which the majority of bikers who are not associated with the Night Wolves are inclined. As a matter of fact, as soon as Mr. Zaldostanov fraternized with the Kremlin, there was a serious split in the bike movement. Under the strict guidance of curators from the presidential administration, the Night Wolves began to crush smaller groups under themselves, building a “motor vertical” under the conditional motto: “Putin. Nationalism. There are enemies around. Motorcycle”, and the Surgeon himself took part in a number of political events only in recent years - he repeatedly met with Vladimir Putin, including in Sevastopol during the president’s official visit to Ukraine, which resulted in public humiliation of the host, gave Putin jackets, rode with him on bikes and held countless public events with the leaders of Russian regions.
On the Internet forums of bikers, there were heated discussions about this. Here are some entries: Petros: "Our esteemed Doctor made a fuss in time and lent his shoulder to these crooks from the authorities." Motorol: “There has always been a commercial streak in the Surgeon, but here it’s such a freebie!” Many bikers, far from politics and accustomed to freedom, did not want to "go to bed" under the surgeon's knife, and conflicts began. Among the "dissenters" were "Three Roads".
By the way, the ideological version of the "attack" on the Zelenograd motorcycle club was also voiced by a former employee of the Institute for Advanced Training of Leading Personnel of the Prosecutor General's Office, and now an activist of the Night Wolves, political strategist and actor Alexei Vaits. According to him, the "three-roaders" began to move away from the "general line" more and more and show independence.
A representative of Three Roads, who asked not to be named, told Novaya Gazeta that, in his opinion, the real reason for the disagreements between the two motorcycle clubs was the excessive politicization of the Night Wolves: “Their leader meets with Putin, talks about the harmful influence of the West ... He began to remind us of an official who, by his structure, cannot be a de facto biker.”
So the “Night Wolves” arrived, according to independent bikers, to “embroider” the members of the Three Roads club - “to publicly tear jackets and symbols, which is a great humiliation”, and “to take off the colors” - that is, to actually close the club.
"Night Wolves", in turn, put forward a third version - criminal . From the official statement: “Valery Bely did not die in some kind of collective fight - he died trying to disarm a man who, in a deranged state, was firing a gun at everyone around <...>. We have reason to believe that the conflict was based on the intervention of criminal groups associated with the drug trade, trying to get representatives of the Three Roads Club to participate in their activities. The investigation will clarify the situation in more detail.”
Note that if the investigation is carried out objectively, then it will not be difficult to find out all the circumstances - the moment of the attack was filmed by outdoor video surveillance cameras.
True, the second part of the Night Wolves statement and, let’s say, political ties still make us worry about the impartiality of the investigation: “We see that, by a strange coincidence, those media that waged an active support campaign are especially active in trying to discredit our club” marsh actions”, hooligans from the “pussy” group, propaganda of “cross-cutting” actions. It's no secret that, not being a political organization, we supported and continue to support the idea of restoring the Union State, social justice, countered the processes of moral decay, homosexuality, drug addiction, alcohol abuse, as well as any "orange" trends. <...> We call for solidarity actions of all friendly biker clubs. Everyone who shares our values and does not want the drug mafia, homosexuals and orange provocateurs to gain the upper hand.”
And those who do not want to join this “general line”, which provokes public support from the Kremlin, will follow the “Three Roads” as in Zelenograd?
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The surgeon and his business empire
Alexander Zaldostanov graduated from the 3rd Moscow Medical Institute in 1984 and got a job in a dental clinic. Was a practicing surgeon. In 1989, leaving medicine, he founded the first biker club in the USSR, Night Wolves. Now he is the founder and president of the Night Wolves interregional public organization, as well as a number of other NGOs: the Association of Bikers, Tattoo Center, Extreme Park, etc. His business, according to the testimony of his associates, began in the late 90s, when the Sexton bike center located in Nizhny Mnevniki began to make a profit. Today it is a real shopping and entertainment complex: there was a place for a motorcycle service, a tavern, and a night club ... In 2005, the ownership of this territory with the buildings located on it, presumably, belonged to Zaldostanov’s LLC Wolf Wear (in 2009 it ceased activity). However, then the property could become the property of Bike V. Center LLC (according to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, it also belongs to Zaldostanov).
In 2011, Zaldostanov became one of the co-founders in Volk 77 Private Security Company LLC with a 40% share. "Volk 77" owns 100% of the shares of another private security company - "Holding of security structures "Volk". On the official website of the private security company, potential customers are offered a wide range of services, including support during collection.
A comment
The opinion of the motorcycle community was expressed by one of its well-known representatives, who is not associated with either the Night Wolves or the Three Roads and who wished not to give his last name:
- "Three Roads" until recently was the so-called support club of the "Night Wolves". The first had the symbols of their "senior comrades". This is a normal situation when a big club has its own small "branches". Sometimes they live well, sometimes they fall apart. The Three Roads decided to move away from the Night Wolves and join the Bandidos, the fourth largest motorcycle club in the world. No one has the right to condemn them - in the motorcycle community, all people are free in their decisions. It turned out differently ... Some, as they say, "came out", others wanted to put them in their place.
Because of this, what happened happened: some wanted to arrange a public flogging of others. Remove the colors from the club, which would automatically lead to its collapse. And they came for this business not at all in kokoshniks, but with bats, telescopic batons and “trunks”. But it didn't work out. No one expected that a handful of people would repulse several dozen "wolves". By the way, the latter gathered their "composition" mainly from the regions - an old bandit practice: so as not to "shine" local representatives.
It is not worth saying that motorcycle gangs are criminalized in our country, as it happened abroad. Drugs, prostitutes, weapons are dealt with by completely different, sometimes very official citizens. There are quite a lot of motorcycle clubs in Russia, which practically no one knows about. They do not advertise, but simply do their job, often doing charity work or working with children. Why was it necessary to arrange gang warfare, instead of doing real business? For others to be afraid?
The main thing here is how the investigation will be conducted. There is every reason to believe that the shooting guy will be “closed” under an article much more serious than “exceeding self-defense”. If the investigation is carried out in this vein, then this will be a very big mistake of the authorities. Here it is necessary to refuse support, from singling out someone against the general background. Nobody will tolerate totalitarianism, and there will be no God's anointed one in our circles. The main law of motorcycle clubs is “out of politics”, these are free people who clearly and calmly express their views, and the “Wolves” have long violated it ...