Rise in Neo-Nazi attacks in Russia

[rpannier]

Swastika vigilantes kill foreign students to keep their city 'clean'

THE African students did not even see the man raise the swastika-emblazoned shotgun as they emerged from the Apollo nightclub in St Petersburg.
When he opened fire from the shadows behind them, some of the group thought it was a firecracker going off.
Then they saw Samba Lampsar Sall, a 28-year-old student from Senegal, lying dead on the pavement with his throat blown apart.

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Mr Sall’s brutal murder exposes one of Russia’s most disturbing problems as President Putin prepares to host the G8 summit in St Petersburg in mid-July. For all its grandeur and impressive art collections, Russia’s second city is fast becoming the racist capital of the world.

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But dozens of similar cases have been treated as “hooliganism”, a crime that carries a far lighter sentence. One of the most shocking attacks occurred in 2004, when teenagers stabbed to death a nine-year-old Tajik girl in St Petersburg. Last month, a court convicted them of hooliganism, giving six of them 18-year jail sentences and one of them five years.



The rest of the article can be found at:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2123721,00.html

[shenmue]

1. Horrible

Just a shame how low some "human beings" can sink.

[knitter4democracy]

2. Idiots.

The Nazis believed that all Slavs weren't much above animals, if at all. They executed Slavs in the Holocaust, too.

This sounds like a desperate grab at power in one's life and a way to feel better than those around them, especially if they're unemployed or underemployed. It will just get worse as the economy gets worse.