Nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich died in jail

On September 16, 2020, the famous neo-Nazi Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich was found dead in a pre-trial detention center in Chelyabinsk.

On September 16, 2020, in one of the cells of the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center-3, FSIN officers found the body of the leader of the ultra-right movement “Restrukt” Maxim (Tesak) Martsinkevich. The department named Tesak's preliminary cause of death as suicide. The same version was put forward by the Investigative Committee.

Tesak was transported from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow, where the nationalist had to testify about his possible involvement in a double murder, the video of which was published on August 12, 2007 and is known as “The Execution of Tajik and Dag.”

Israeli director Vladi Antonevich accused Tesak of involvement in this murder back in 2016 in his documentary “Credit for Murder.” The film presents a version that the double murder was orchestrated by the Russian special services with the help of two neo-Nazi organizations - the National Socialist Society (NSO) and the Format 18 group of Maxim Martsinkevich. Upon learning of Tesak's death, Antonevich suggested that Martsinkevich committed suicide when he learned that the investigation considered his participation in the murder proven. Later, Antonevich changed his mind and began to consider the version of the murder of a nationalist, which was widespread among the far right.

The head of pre-trial detention center-3 reported that Tesak stated that he feared for his life and saw a threat in other prisoners, after which he was placed in a separate cell. The nationalist’s lawyer stated that “in this case, the prosecutor must be notified, which was not done... And in such cases, they are placed in a cell with working video surveillance...”, and on the day of Tesak’s death, the video surveillance in his cell was not working. According to an examination of recordings from a video surveillance camera installed opposite Tesak’s cell, only pre-trial detention center officers entered and left him. Tesak himself did not leave his cell for six days. Tesak's last visit to his cell was at 16:36, the day before his death. At about 23:00, the inspector told Tesak through the observation window that he would be transferred to Moscow in the morning. This was confirmed by a prisoner from the cell opposite; he added that at about two o’clock in the morning Martsinkevich asked what time it was. At about 7 a.m. on September 16, Tesak was offered breakfast, “at first he was silent for a long time, but then in a quiet voice he refused.” At approximately 08:15, inspectors entered Tesak's cell and found him dead.

Martsinkevich was lying on the bed on his back with a cord noose around his neck, the end of the rope tied to the top tier of the bed. The lawyer stated that there was blood on the bed linen and the floor next to the bed. On the top tier of the bed there was an inscription in blood: “Tesak died here.” The lawyer also said that he was alarmed that “the whole cell is covered in traces of blood.” Tesak's shorts were missing a drawstring. On the bed they found blades covered in blood and a disassembled disposable machine. In the cell they found two suicide notes, a photograph of a girl with a message for her on the back, and a diary with poems and songs.

The cause of death was determined by the medical examiner to be mechanical asphyxia due to compression of the neck. The expert did not find any traces of a struggle, nor did he find any biological traces of other people. The medical examiner recorded cuts on the neck and elbow. According to the expert's conclusion, the cut wounds appeared on the body 30 minutes - 3 hours before death. Tesak was found to have two intravital bruises on his right shin, which had formed at least two days before his death. The lawyer, in his complaint against the refusal to initiate a case, said that he contacted a forensic expert, who recorded traces of a stun gun on the body. She also discovered that the deceased had no nails on his hands and feet, and “it is difficult or impossible to inflict such injuries on your own.”

The media reported that in his suicide note, Martsinkevich wrote that he “didn’t want to cause trouble to the administration of the pre-trial detention center,” and asked to give the book “Protectionism and Communism” and a diary to his girlfriend in Yekaterinburg. The note ended with the words “Forgive me.” “I would like to ask why everything is so unfair, but it’s all my fault... Of course, if at the age of 16 I had gotten into my hands not “My Struggle”, but “Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing,” then, most likely, all my life would have gone differently. I would not have become an NS, but a libertarian, I would not have committed a whole bunch of ideologically based murders, I would not have been in prison, and now, while being transported in Chelyabinsk, I would not be preparing to commit suicide,” the media quoted Tesak’s letter. On the back of the girl’s photograph, Tesak wrote that he “cut his own carotid artery.” Experts believe that he wrote the notes himself.

In early December, it became known that during the examination of Tesak’s body at the Chelyabinsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medicine, another note, wrapped in plastic, was found in his mouth, which stated that “he did not commit the murders, which he confessed to having committed, but himself.” , as well as other persons indicated in his testimony, slandered."

Tesak served his sentence in a colony in Karelia, from where he was transferred to Moscow via Krasnoyarsk, Novosibirsk and Chelyabinsk. The investigation claims that Martsinkevich arrived at the Chelyabinsk pre-trial detention center without any injuries. Lawyers deny this; in Novosibirsk, according to lawyer Alexei Mikhalchik, Tesak ended up in a “press hut”. “I don’t believe that it was suicide... he had a lawyer in Novosibirsk, to whom he told that he had been tortured for the last three months, forced to sign some kind of confession for murders in Moscow in the 90s. I I think these are all links in one chain."

Doubts that Martsinkevich could commit suicide were also expressed by his relative Oleg Shultz, who stated: “... as much as I talked with Maxim, he always said: if they find me dead, don’t believe me.” In 2014, Tesak himself wrote that “if I cut my veins during transit or hang myself, that means they helped me.” The version of suicide was also questioned by Martsinkevich’s father.

As a result of inspections, the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Chelyabinsk Region revealed minor violations in the actions of officials of the detention center and brought them to disciplinary liability.

After Tesak was found dead in a pre-trial detention center, a representative of the Investigative Committee reported that Martsinkevich, shortly before his death, testified in the case of the double murder of a native of Dagestan, Shamil Odamanov (Udamanov), and a citizen of Tajikistan, committed in 2007 in Obninsk. The representative of the Investigative Committee added that the neo-Nazi also spoke about another double murder, which the police did not know about, and spoke about the burial place of the dead, where their bodies were found.

On January 15, 2021, the media published another suicide note from Martsinkevich, marked “telegram to [phone number] Andrey or lawyer Ivan for Ded and Schultz.” In this text, Tesak reports that “in Krasnoyarsk [he] was broken 100%” and he “took upon himself to participate in the “Execution of the Tajik and Dag” <....>. He said that Malyuta cut his head, and the Dentist was yawning on camera.” The note also mentions Romeo, with whom Martsinkevich had a confrontation, veteran of the far-right movement Sergei Marshakov , who testified against Martsinkevich, as well as Artyom and Dentist, whom Tesak advises to leave the country as soon as possible.

Grandfather and Schultz, to whom the note is addressed, are Andrei Dedov and Alexander Shitov , who appeared in the videos of the Format-18 Studio. Dedov left for Ukraine after the death of Martsinkevich. “Artyom” may be Artyom Kostylev , Tesak’s comrade-in-arms, who starred in a number of episodic scenes in the Format-18 Studio video. Kostylev was found hanged on October 23, 2020 in a forest near Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. According to Vladi Antonevich, Romeo is an ex-member of the banned neo-Nazi group “Format-18” Maxim Aristarkhov , and the Dentist is Maxim Makienko, the founder of the NSO-Ryazan.

Let us recall that Martsinkevich became famous in the 2000s, after he created the far-right organization “Format-18” in 2005 (recognized as extremist in December 2010 by decision of the Moscow City Court ). "Format-18" specialized in the production and sale of videos with scenes of attacks and torture of homeless people and migrants from Central Asia and Transcaucasia by Nazi skinheads.

In 2008, Martsinkevich was convicted for the first time - that time - for nationalist provocation at the Bilingua club. In 2009, he was convicted again, this time for posting on the Internet a video of a re-enactment of the hanging of a “Tajik drug dealer.” On December 31, 2010, his prison term ended and he was released, after which he created the Restrukt organization and took up new “projects.” The most famous was his project to “hunt” pedophiles “Occupy-pedophilia”, but there were others: “Occupy-drug-dealer” (they caught drug dealers), “Occupy-evict” (they looked for places of residence of illegal migrants), “Occupy-alkophilia” (they caught dealers selling alcohol to minors) and “Occupy Gerontophilia” (they caught young people offering sex for money). Even in the published videos, Tesak and his followers beat and humiliated those they caught.

Martsinkevich again attracted the attention of law enforcement agencies in 2013. On the night of February 15-16, he was detained in Minsk after a fight with anti-fascists. The case against him was closed in March.

However, in December 2013, he again became a defendant in a criminal case - the Kuntsevsky Court of Moscow arrested him in absentia . At that moment he was in Ukraine, where he created the project “Dovecote Get Out!”, an analogue of the Russian “Occupy-Pedophilia”. At the end of December, Tesak flew to Cuba, from where he was delivered to Moscow at the end of January 2014. In August of the same year, Martsinkevich was sentenced to 5 years in prison for posting the video “Throw out the chock! Election propaganda!” and two others on social networks (the sentence was later commuted to 2 years and 10 months in prison).

In June 2017, a new sentence followed - as part of a group of Occupy-Narcophilia participants. The court found him guilty of robbery, hooliganism, intentional destruction of property and inciting national hatred. Taking into account the unserved term in the previous criminal case, the court sentenced Martsinkevich to 10 years in prison. In May 2018, the Moscow City Court overturned the sentence and sent the case for a new trial, but in the end, in December 2018, he was simply re- sentenced to the same 10 years.

On October 17, 2019, the Syktyvkar City Court of the Komi Republic granted Martsinkevich’s petition and released him from criminal liability for three episodes, qualified under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code in 2014, in connection with the decriminalization of the charge. On this basis, the last sentence assigned to the nationalist was reduced from 10 to 8 years in prison. In addition, since, due to changes in legislation, Martsinkevich could no longer be considered a repeat offender at the time of the last sentence, his period of detention in a pre-trial detention center from May 2015 should have been counted according to the formula of a day and a half. Thus, according to Tesak’s associates, he should have been released in May 2021, if new charges had not been brought against him.

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