Kaluga: members of another Occupy Pedophilia clone detained

In Kaluga, teenagers were detained for beating immigrants who came on fake dates with a minor.

In December 2023, it became known that 10 teenagers were detained in Kaluga for attacking visitors, luring them on fake dates.

The group consisted of 9 young people and one girl, 14-year-old Alexandra S. The leaders, according to media reports, were 16-year-old local school student Sergei Z. and 16-year-old technical school student Artyom F.

The group operated according to the traditional scheme: the girl corresponded on Odnoklassniki with young men with “non-Slavic appearance”, agreed on a date, and when the man arrived, the teenagers beat him in a crowd and filmed what was happening on camera. The video was subsequently posted on two specially created Telegram channels. There, teenagers collected money for the right to see full videos of beatings (money was offered to be transferred to Artem’s card) and published various xenophobic posts.

According to the investigation, at least 8 attacks were committed over six months. Among the victims are citizens of Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Armenia. We know about one of the attacks - the beating of a native of Central Asia in Kaluga in October.

Now all the teenagers have been detained. During the searches, knives, pistols, instructions for making IEDs, as well as Right Sector symbols (recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia) were confiscated from them.

A criminal case has been initiated under Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of an extremist community). Sergei and Artem are charged with Part 1 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of an extremist community), the rest, Part 1 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in an extremist community).

Let us remember that the organization of such fake dates was popularized in the 2010s by the famous far-right activist Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich in his project “Occupy the Pedophile.” The only difference from those detained is that Martsinkevich used a (supposedly) minor as a bait, a young man, and not a girl. Such “safari” or “raids”, as they were called in the far-right environment, became popular in 2012, and then many different groups became involved in this activity under the auspices of the fight against pedophilia. After participants in many such projects, including Occupy Pedophilia, became objects of attention from law enforcement agencies, the fashion for this type of activity decreased sharply, but never completely disappeared.

This is not the first group of “pedophile hunters” to attract police attention over the past year. Let us recall that in September in Moscow, was detained in Moscow, who was filming videos of bullying alleged pedophiles. the leader of the ultra-right group of the Vigilantes PLO, nicknamed Simon,

Sources

• 10 teenagers who committed attacks on migrants were detained in Kaluga // Baza. 2023. December 15.