Action "Clearing St. Petersburg from non-Russians"

On November 12, 2020, in St. Petersburg, three ultra-rightists (teenagers with the nicknames Alyosha Cherny, Zhenya Schmeiser and the Merciless Killer) beat several people near the Kirovsky Zavod metro station. The attackers used gas cylinders. They planned to hold an action "Cleansing St. Petersburg from non-Russians."

They were detained by the police. The detainees said that they were "offered to hold the rally by a certain young man, nicknamed the Gestapo. However, he himself did not come to the 'cleansing operation' - on the day of the rally, he allegedly called the teenagers and said that he had caught a cold."

An employee of the criminal investigation department told reporters that in social networks, teenagers who are conducted under fictitious names "have all the charms of neo-Nazism and are exposed." According to the bases of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, until November 13, none of them was involved.

In October, the same teenagers reportedly carried out several attacks on migrants on Leninsky Prospekt.

A criminal case was opened against the detainees under article 162 of the Criminal Code. One of the suspects is under house arrest, two minors have been released from the police department without restrictions.

Sources

• Donskoy Dmitry. In St. Petersburg, a case was opened against teenagers who attacked migrants. Fontanka writes that they beat up street cleaners and homeless people in order to “clean up” the city // Meduza. November 15, 2020
• Vyshenkov Evgeny, Metelkova Inna. Petersburg was cleared of non-Russians. Schoolchildren who gassed migrant janitors testify against the Gestapo // Fontanka. November 15, 2020