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Alleged ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Leader Indicted Over Plot to Kill Jews
US prosecutors have charged Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” with a litany of crimes, including alleged attempts to poison Jewish children in NYC.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Tuesday unsealed a sweeping felony indictment against the 20-year-old they say is the head of a violent Eastern European skinhead gang implicated in a number of assaults and attacks abroad, some of them fatal. Michail Chkhikvishvili, otherwise known as “Commander Butcher,” “Michael,” and “Mishka,” was arrested on an Interpol warrant on July 6 in Chișinău, Moldova, for allegedly conspiring to solicit attacks on homeless people, Jews, and other racial minorities in New York City, distributing explosives-making instructions, and making violent threats in online conversations with an undercover FBI employee. In their Telegram channels, MKY members lionized in-person violence and distributed how-to guides on committing violent assaults and shootings, causing maximum harm to victims, and how perpetrators could cover their tracks.
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