Anyone got any more info on this? The verdcit is today :(
Hope it pans out ok...
mixed at best i;m afraid:
(en) One year sentence for Aleksei Olesinov - anti-fascists hit streets in Moscow; Neo-nazist became a victim of his own aggression
Date Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:09:12 +0300
One year sentence for Aleksei Olesinov - anti-fascists hit streets of Moscow ---- 21st of
April Aleksei "Shkobar" Olesinov, anti-fascist arrested 5th of November with bogus charges
of having incited a fight in a club in August 2008, was slapped one year prison sentence
in a kangaroo court. ---- This although defense presented a video which proved that
Olesinov attacked nobody, although both club owners and security whom Olesinov allegedly
assaulted denied that they had any claims against Olesinov, they even did not appeared in
the court. Moreover, police who grabbed people randomly that night in August had already
fined Olesinov for a misdemeanor he did not committed, thus this was already the second
sentence for the same "crime" Olesinov, who has no criminal record, allegedly committed.
Luckily, judge only gave Olesinov one year instead of five years
demanded by the prosecution. Aleksei said that although he has been sick
in prison, one year sentence will be no big deal for him. But obviously
this was still a miscarriage of justice, as Olesinov had not committed
any crime whatsoever and a reason to protest. Really Olesinov is in
prison only because he is an anti-fascist activist, and because Russian
courts are tightly controlled by the state - they have no chance to
release people who are remanded, as that would automatically result a
criminal charge against police who arrested them.
Already for a week, Moscow police had been vigilance - originally
verdict was expected to be given 14th of April, but as anonymous
anti-fascist group called for organisation of attacks against "banks,
police stations and expensive stores" (call in Russian here
http://free-olesinov.livejournal.com/612.html), authorities panicked and
passed verdict to monday 20th week - people who went to support Olesinov
14th of April, were arrested when they were just exiting from metro, and
slapped with fabricated misdemeanor charges of "illegal demonstration".
Whole region was packed with OMON riot police.
Soon authorities realised, that it would be a fiasco to send
anti-fascist to jail in Hitler's birthday, and eventually verdict was
passed to Tuesday 21st. There was also a heavy riot police presence all
around the city, not only due to anti-fascist plans but also to prevent
possible Nazi provocations which at times happen around 20th of April.
However anti-fascists managed to gather following high level of
conspiracy, and to mass more than people to Mendeleyevskaya metro
station from where a march towards infamous Butyrka prison around 9:10
PM (where Nestor Makhno once spent almost a decade), where Olesinov is
held. Scanning "Freedom to Aleksey Olesinov", "Antifa", "No Pasaran" and
other anarchist and anti-fascist slogans, behind a big banner "More
there will be repression - more rage there will be in our resistance -
We do not want peace without social justice - freedom to Aleksei
Olesinov!", march made it to the Butyrka prison, where it turned back
and to the Lesnaya street in an improvised move. At the crossing, plain
clothes cops tried to snatch someone, who resisted succesfully. However
in Lesnaya street around 9:25 PM march was stopped by a bus of OMON, who
eventually managed to arrest 80 people. Some people were beaten up, one
participator had his jaw broken he was hospitalised. During arrest, a
crowd of people was pushed to desk of a vegetable vendor which got
broken, and now police is spreading lies that demonstrators were
breaking shop windows.
As usual, arrested people were threatened and stolen some of their
property by the police. Some people were released the same night, some
were forced to stay for the court the same day. When writing this (9 PM
local time 22nd of April), it is still not clear if everyone have been
released.
More photos: http://ingahomer.livejournal.com/46909.html (also source of
photos at this article).
http://4brokenheart.livejournal.com/274258.html
http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?p=alexei+olesinov&c=images
http://visualrian.ru/lists/item/33802
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/v/uwESsuRl0SM
More articles in Russian:
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2425
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2424
http://maskodagama.livejournal.com/590273.html
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21795/index.php
http://ru.indymedia.org/newswire/display/21794/index.php
http://piter.indymedia.ru/node/6260
http://piter.indymedia.ru/node/6257
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_antifa/
There were also solidarity graffiti actions in Kiev:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRMJAUi7z0k
And in Barnaul of Siberia last week:
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2412
And a FNB solidarity action in Simferopol of Ukraine:
http://www.avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2422
(source: http://avtonom.org/index.php?nid=2426)
Neo-nazist became a victim of his own aggression
On the 17th of April in Odessa 15 nazi-skinheads with the use of bottles
and rocks attacked 5 members of the anti-fascist movement. Nazis ran up
to the antifascists sitting on a bench near the “Orech” club and started
shouting threads and Nazis slogans and started the fighting. Earlier
activists of «antifa» were often threatened by Nazi-skinheads;
anti-fascists were victims of nazi-attacks. Their fore they realized
that any conflict provoked by Nazis could be fatal. Protecting their
lives “antifa” had to use a pen-knife (means of self-protection not
prohibited by the low) Nazi-skinhead Maksim Chaika –was wounded. He did
not get proper medical aid and died. If the antifascists had not fighted
back protecting themselves they would have been in morgue. Ultrarights
tray to make benefit of the insolent by fouls presenting the facts and
cynically lying to the publicity.
Ultrarights propagandists declair that killing had political subtext.
Actually 5 antifa had to resist 15 aggressive nazi-skinhead attack. The
police confirm the fixed number of antifashiscts. Nazis are truing to
present Maksim Chaika as are victim however it was him , and his friends
who started the fighting.
It is well known that Chaika himself and another Odessa Nazis often
threatened antifa activists. Were collecting info even addresses and
made attacks antifascists. Naturally Nazi can reject an unfavorable
facts replacing them with their own falsification.
Mass-media also reproduce the myth that killed Maksim Chaika was an
activist off are ‘’patriotic organization’’ it is well known that social
organization ‘’Sich’’ is Nazi-skinhead organization who were make
onslaughts on racism basics. Criminal reports from all Ukraine have more
and more facts about killings on racism basics. People who perform
disagreement wish antihuman ideology of Nazism take even bigger risk to
fall victims of the street terror.
Bands of neo-Nazis do not keep in secret they are planning to revenge-
we can see this info online: “We must do everything possible that the
least of over blood to be shed and the most blood to be shed by the
enemy. Our enemies should be killed first then our losses would be minimal”.
Meanwhile the ultrarights parties try to make political accets
hypocritically mentioning the repressions of the “Ukrainian patriots”.
It is worth mentioning that politicians of the opposite (pro-Russian
party “Rodina” and politician Igor Markov) – are following the pragmatic
aims. They preset the incident as a conflict of pro-Russian and
Ukrainian right radicals. But Ukrainian “antifa” is not related to any
political force. More than that a party promoting national superiority
could provoke only negative feelings of antifa members.
The fact that antifa are presented as extremists is another myth that
should be denied. Mass-media keep silent about extremist nature of
neo-Nazism ideology that rejects value of human life. Mass-media forget
about terrifying statistics of killing on basics of racism hatred. It is
terrible that people who do not agree with Nazis can’t count on any
protection of the authorities or society. We should add that reaction of
the antifa- activists for aggression had legal foundation: part 3
paragraph 27 of the constitution of Ukraine provides the right of the
individuals to protect their own lives and health and also lives and
health of other individuals from the illegal actions; according to
provision 36 of the Criminal Low of Ukraine the above motioned of the
antifascists is consider as a necessary self-protection. The
antifascists knew that the Nazis were more numerous and that they were
armed with bottles and rocks so fighting was inevitable.
We – the activists of antifascist movement – express our sincere
condolences to Maksim Chaika’s family and relatives. Those who make
fools of young people with the neo-nazi ideology and trend to gain
money, power and glory are really guilty of Maksim Chaika’s death.
We demand from Odessa police comprehensive investigation of the incident
and the conformation of the fact of necessary self-protection on the
part of antifa
We demand from all mass-media to resist all the provocations and to
objectively present the event because the destinies of antifascists who
are involved in this incident depends on this. More than this mass-media
should oppose attends of definite political forces to cash on Maksim
Chaika’s death.
“Antifascistska diya” http://antifa-action.org.ua (http://antifa-action.org.ua/)
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