The Brooklyn Federal Courthouse in New York Metropolis, US.
Michail Chkhikvishvili, a neo-Nazi chief from Georgia, was indicted this week on costs of soliciting hate crimes and planning acts of mass violence in New York Metropolis. He supposed to hold out a New 12 months’s Eve assault involving Santa Claus distributing poisoned sweet to racial minorities and Jewish youngsters in Brooklyn.
As per a US authorities launch, Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chisinau, Moldova, on July 6, 2024, pursuant to an Interpol Needed Particular person Diffusion, which was issued based mostly on a prison criticism. Chkhikvishvili is alleged to be a frontrunner of the Maniac Homicide Cult, also referred to as “Maniacs Homicide Cult,” “Maniacs: Cult of Killing,” “MKY,” “MMC,” and “MKU,” a global racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group.
Chkhikvishvili allegedly recruited others for violent acts, together with planning a mass assault in NYC with an undercover officer posing as a recruit. US Lawyer Breon Peace, Assistant AG Matthew Olsen, and FBI’s Christie Curtis introduced the fees.
“As alleged, the defendant sought to recruit others to commit violent assaults and killings in furtherance of his Neo-Nazi ideologies,” said United States Lawyer Peace. “His objective was to unfold hatred, worry, and destruction by encouraging bombings, arson, and even poisoning youngsters for the aim of harming racial minorities, the Jewish neighborhood, and homeless people. We is not going to hesitate to search out and prosecute those that threaten the security and freedoms of all members of our neighborhood, together with members of minority communities, irrespective of the place on this planet these criminals is likely to be hiding.”
The federal government report said Chkhikvishvili led MKY, a global extremist group with a Neo-Nazi ideology selling violence towards minorities. MKY goals to disrupt social order by means of terrorism, with members in america and overseas.
Since September 2021, Chkhikvishvili has distributed the “Hater’s Handbook” to MKY members, selling MKY’s rules and urging mass violence. The manifesto consists of Chkhikvishvili’s claims of killing for the white race and encourages faculty shootings, utilizing youngsters for suicide bombings, and different assaults towards racial minorities. It outlines methods for terror assaults, equivalent to focusing on massive occasions and crowded streets, particularly in america.