The Sergiev Posad City Court has sentenced six associates of neo-Nazi Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak) to 15 years of strict regime in the case of two double murders of migrants at the beginning of the 2000s. Judge Lilia Baranova issued such a sentence, lawyer Igor Popovsky, who defends the accused Andrei Kail, told Mediazone.
Semyon Tokmakov and Andrei Kail received 15 years in prison, Alexey Gudilin and Pavel Khrulev — 13 years each, Maxim Khotulev — 10 years, and Alexander Lysenkov — 8 years. All of them must serve their sentences in a strict regime colony.
The jury heard the case. The assessors unanimously found all the defendants guilty, but decided that Khotulev and Lysenkov deserved leniency. During the discussion of the consequences of the verdict, the state prosecutor requested Kayl 19.5 years, Tokmakov — 17, Gudilin and Khrulev — 16 each, and Lysenkov and Khotulev — 13 each.
Neo-Nazis were charged with two double murders committed as part of a group of persons, with particular cruelty and motivated by national hatred (paragraphs «a», «e», «g», «l» of Part 2 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code). We are talking about the murders committed in 2003.
According to the prosecution, the main motive for the murders is Tesak's attempt to rally the neo-Nazi organization created by Semyon Tokmakov, the National People's Party (NPP). When conflicts began to develop between the active members of the NPP, Tesak suggested that the differences between the skinheads would come to naught if they were «bound in blood.»
The first episode is from September 2003. Then Martsinkevich, Tokmakov, Kail and others hired two newcomers for construction work at Tesak's dacha in the Smolensk region. There they forced the workers to take sleeping pills, then one of them was killed with an ax blow, and the second was strangled. Subsequently, after the arrest of Tesak, the skeletonized remains of workers were found at the site.
Another double murder by neo-Nazis, according to the state prosecution, was committed three months later at an abandoned camp site in the Sergiev Posad district of the Moscow region. There they shot one migrant and strangled another; a video of the process was posted on the Internet, and the severed heads of men were thrown into the courtyards of the Moscow district of Golyanovo.
The accusation is based on the testimony of Martsinkevich himself, which he gave shortly before his death. During the process, the defendants and their lawyers insisted that Tesak had slandered himself and them under torture. They themselves also previously gave confessions, but they retracted them in court.
In September 2020, while being transferred from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow, Martsinkevich was found dead in a pre-trial detention center. The investigation believes that he committed suicide.
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