Russia: banned neo-Nazi movement “White Strength”

In Russia, the International Neo-Nazi group of NS-WP (“White Strength”) is prohibited, whose members committed a number of brutal murders and other crimes. The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Friday, May 21, satisfied the petition of the Prosecutor General’s Office on the recognition of this grouping of terrorist, transfers Deutsche Vella.

“The Supreme Court satisfied the administrative claim for the General Prosecutor’s Office, recognized the International Movement of the National Socialist Movement” White Strength “(NS / WP) by a terrorist organization and forbade it to act in the territory of the Russian Federation,” Russian media reported with reference to the press Court service.

In 2014, nine participants in the “white power” were sentenced in Russia to a long time of imprisonment for a series of crimes, among which were the terrorist attack. In the period from 2009 to 2010, members of the group killed a citizen Guinea-Bissau and filmed their actions on the video, which later posted on the Internet. The convicts also burned two homeless women who slept in an abandoned car, and killed several men who led the asocial lifestyle. Participants in the grouping were also found guilty of arson of the temple, a construction crane, as well as in the undermining using a homemade public transport stopping device. The last crime was qualified as a terrorist attack.