Attack on "Attack": the first verdict has been handed down

In October 2015 in Moscow, the court sentenced conditional imprisonment of the activist of the ultra-right association "Attack" Maxim Yaryshkin.

In October 2015, a verdict was pronounced in Moscow in the case against one of the members of the ultra-right community "Attack" Maxim Yaryshkin.

According to investigators, the defendant in 2013 and 2014, being member of the Attack, distributed some leaflets, in which, as reported, contains calls for discrimination against certain ethnic groups.

The court found the young man guilty of inciting national hatred (part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code) and the creation of an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and sentenced to two years of probation.

There are 11 other people involved in the Attack case, who, in depending on the role of each, are also accused under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code.

Recall, according to investigators, in 2013 young people created far-right movement "Attack", whose main task was the violent overthrow of the current government in Russia. It is reported that the promotion of their ideas young people and their associates carried out through social networks, as well as posted flyers and stickers. The suspects themselves claim that they acted in within the law and even took a subscription from new members of the organization, in which those pledged to comply with the laws of the Russian Federation. According to the participants in the movement, the "Attack" was disbanded in April 2014 after searches and interrogations began defendants in the case.

Sources

• One of the members of the ATAKA extremist community was convicted in Moscow // Official site of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. 2015. October 22.