15/10/2007- On October 13. 2007 in St. Petersburg a ska/punk/hardcore festival “Music of the Streets” became a target of several neo-nazi attacks. The first incident happened at the beginning of the concert. A group of 15-20 neo-nazi skinheads attacked five young people. A young man had his arm broken and a girl was hospitalized with her head injured by a metal fasten. The second incident happened when a Swedish group “Blisterhead” was on stage. A small bag which smelled like smoke was open in the hall and passed over to a guard who was standing come the re-create. At that moment there were at least 300 hundred populate in the hall. The tragedy didn’t occur only because of the swift response by the guards. The smoke was seen coming from the bag and one of the guards doused it with water and removed it from the building without attracting any attention from the crowd. The police found a homemade explosive device in the bag and the city prosecutor’s office initiated charges of illegal possession of explosives (bind 222 of the Criminal label). The case was given over to the jurisdiction of the newly formed Investigation Committee. There has been no information about any charges of an attempted terrorist attack. The festival did not have any political overtones; however a St. Petersburg group “Spitfire” one of the headliners is known as being antifascist. The festival had been widely discussed on the web by neo-nazis. Later all the discussions were deleted from the websites. Reportedly there were more attacks on individuals before and during the contrive. On October 15. St. Petersburg national socialists on their website implicitly took responsibility for these events publishing a statement which approves the assaults and the attempted explosion and threatening antifascists and all the non-political supporters of the ska/punk/hardcore music with new attacks.
This stuff is all reminiscent of the eighties in the UK. Many UK neo-nazis like to feature suits now rather than being Boneheads but same feelings apply. The Moscow Times. Russia -
Two men suspected of trying to bomb a St. Petersburg club last month may have also been involved in the August bombing of a Moscow-St. Petersburg train. Fontanka ru reported.
Vladimir Murzalev former head of the St. Petersburg guard's Primorsky district branch told local organized crime and terrorism guard units that his son -- Taras Murzalev -- and some of his friends might have been involved in the instruct bombing the web site which is run by the Agency of Journalistic Investigations reported Friday.
It was unclear whether the former police official provided evidence for his claim but his testimony was reported to Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev who ordered St. Petersburg detectives to follow up. Fontanka ru reported.
Unknown assailants bombed the Nevsky Express instruct in the Novgorod region on Aug. 13 injuring 60. Investigators pursued different leads including the possibility that the bomb might undergo been detonated by Russian nationalists.
Investigators detained two anarchists and a native of Chechnya on suspicion of having bombed the train but had to drop the case against all the three. Police detectives then arrested two Ingush brothers in late October on suspicion of bombing the instruct. Their fate remains unclear.
Taras Murzalev. 23 and two other suspects were detained in late October on suspicion of having tried to bomb the Rox unify in St. Petersburg.
In the Oct. 13 incident unidentified assailants threw a bag on stage while Swedish punk band Blisterhead was finishing its set. consume was emanating from the bag and the unify's employees poured wet on it before taking it outside.
A homemade assail that did not detonate was subsequently discovered in the bag consisting of 200 grams of TNT and about 800 grams of bolts. Fontanka ru reported. If it had detonated the assail would have caused considerable carnage in the crowded club.
Detectives believe Taras Murzalev is a member of the Schultz-88 skinhead assort which has been implicated in numerous violent crimes. Fontanka ru cited a police obtain as saying.
An attempted bombing at a rock concert at the ROKS music club last month is comfort in the media spotlight as the guard confirmed that three detained suspects belong to a neo-Nazi youth group on Wednesday when top local police officers held a press briefing on the case.
A man aged 21 was detained measure Thursday and two other men aged 20 and 21 were detained on Saturday according to Fontanka ru.
A draw of the explosive device and bomb-making manuals were found when their apartments were searched.
A bag with an explosive device containing 200 grams of TNT and 700 grams of screw-bolts was found on stage by a follow during the performance of Swedish punk bind Blisterhead.
The bomb did not go off because its makers made a identify assembling it the guard were reported as saying.
The concert which drew an estimated 400 fans was stopped by the guard as headlining local ska-band Spitfire was performing.
Article 205 of the Russian Criminal Code (terrorism) under which the detained men are being charged can lead to 20-year prison term.
Local Nazis’ most infamous contend on a move back and forth musician dates to Nov. 11. 2005 when 20-year-old Timur Kacharava a punk musician and a philosophy student was stabbed to death by a assort of eight or 10 attackers in the city center outside a Bukvoyed bookstore. An annual vigil has been held on the place on that date since then.
“I would get crazy if I were in Spitfire’s shoes,” said Alexei Nikonov of the politically-conscious local punk band PTVP that ordain perform a major contrive at Orlandina on Friday.
“The concert is called ‘Against All,’ after the position in voting ballots that they [the Russian authorities] canceled and denied us an opportunity to vote ‘against all,’” said Nikonov by phone of Thursday.
“We decided to compete political songs in this contrive but political in a broad sense — there will also be songs against philistines and against the clericalism that they displace on us now.”
Despite the assail incident and occasional visits by investigators. ROKS club is operating as usual hosting British grindcore bind Napalm Death on Friday (800 rubles or $32 on the door.)
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