The movement has a large audience and hot topic on Russian social networking sites - mainly on. Some of the men in the videos have gone missing for unknown reasons possibly they have been killed or taken their own lives out of shame. He even goes as far as charging money to be part of "the hunt for pedophiles" and calls it "safari." Vigilantes in different cities than Moscow use the same format, but Tesak takes the fame for starting it. Tesak appears in only a fraction of the videos. They are lured using online dating and social networking for brutal abuse - all videotaped and posted online for other to watch. He claims to fight pedophiles., but more often than not, the targets are gay men. Occupy PedophiliaĪs promised, soon after his release Tesak created "Occupy Pedophilia" - another "social project" aimed at promoting National Socialism and a reason to beat and humiliate people. I suspect the pedophiles are an even more protected group. I'm happy I've never spoken about pedophiles because I think then they would have given me a tougher sentence. In principle, I agree with the decision of the court and have to apologize. I think they will give me five years because the drug traffickers are, as I understand, by our Constitution, a protected social group. No one has been tried for the alleged beheading.Īfter his second trial, Tesak predicted his verdict to journalists: The website of Format 18 where the videos were initially uploaded was closed at the request of an anti-fascist organization and in 2010 the entire group was banned for extremism by the court.
Strangely, The Russian Investigative Committee claimed the events shown in the video actually did take place. Tesak maintained the hanging was merely a dramatization, the flesh of the dismembered captives was beef, and referred to himself as "producer," "director" and "a creative person." The agents of The Investigative Committee of Russia analyzing the excecution video in question. The defendants made the court believe the video was staged just like the rest of the videos, hence the light sentence. In 2009, the Supreme Court of Russia found Tesak and another member of Format 18 Artem Zuev guilty of "inciting hatred or enmity on the grounds of nationality or religious affiliation" and sentenced both men three years in prison, Zuev with probation. The men were hanged and dismembered by 20 people dressed in white robes of the Ku Klux Klan. The shocking video featured an execution of two drug dealers from Caucasus region in the forest near Moscow. The carefully orchestrated attacks gathered media attention in 2007 when a video title The Execution of a Tajik surfaced. After being called up for compulsory military service (at the time 24 months), a fellow soldier of Azerbaijani ancestry beat him up so bad that, following a mental health evaluation psychiatrists released him from the service.
The hatred against Russian minorities goes back to his childhood. 18 meaning Adolf Hitler - A is 1 st and H the 8 th letter in the Roman alphabet. In 2005, Tesak founded a violent white-power organization called Format 18, trying to unite the Russian skinheads. Tesak lured these young gay men through fake social media profiles under the guise of meeting other LGBT youth. When the torture is over, the videos are dumped online for others to watch. The victims are beaten and humiliated by Tesak or his followers on camera. The Western world may recognize him through the vigilante movement "Occupy Pedophilia," that entraps gay men and boys through fake social media profiles under the guise of meeting other LGBT youth. He is better known by his nickname Tesak (Теса́к), meaning backsword or machete, related to his passion for knives.
Maxim Martsinkevich (Макси́мч Марцинке́вич) is something like a celebrity Neo-Nazi in Russia.