Moscow court has found the notorious Russian neo-Nazi Maksim Martsinkevich (nicknamed “Tesak” (Slasher)) guilty of extremism, hooliganism and robbery and sentenced him to 9 years in a penal colony.
The supporter of the National Socialist ideology was accused of using the fight against drugs as part of his crack-down campaign to attack people and lynch them. He and his associates put online the videos of bullying people who “Slasher” believed to be drug traffickers.
This is the fourth sentence of Martsinkevich. Previously, he was several times tried for inciting ethnic hatred and violence.
“Slasher” repeatedly visited Belarus, where the recorded video promoting his views. On February 14, 2013, Martsinkevich was detained in Minsk after a fight with Belarusian anti-fascists. One of the Belarusians received stab wounds in the fight and was taken to hospital. Martsinkevich was placed in jail, with a criminal case started against him under article “hooliganism” — he was facing 10 years in prison. But already on March 5, 2013, Slasher was unexpectedly released from custody, and a month later the criminal case against him was closed.
In the autumn of 2013, when Martsinkevich was facing another criminal prosecution in Russia, he fled to Belarus, and from there he went to Cuba where in January 2014 he was arrested and extradited to the Russian Federation.
