Deliberate Assault From Neo-Nazi ‘Homicide Cult’ Chief Concerned Santa Giving Poisoned Sweet to Minorities, Jewish Kids: DOJ

20-year-old Michail Chkhikvishvili was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn this week with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence, in line with a press launch from the Division of Justice.

Per the DOJ, Chkhikvishvili is also called “Commander Butcher” and “Butcher” and is the alleged chief of the “Maniac Homicide Cult” or “MKY” — which authorities say is “a global racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist group.” In response to a federal criticism filed within the Japanese District of New York, MKY “adheres to a Neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence and violent acts in opposition to racial minorities, the Jewish group and different teams it deems ‘undesirables.'”

Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova on July 6, 2024, after reportedly talking with an undercover officer he believed was a potential recruit a couple of deliberate “mass casualty assault” in NYC. He’s nonetheless behind bars in Moldova, awaiting extradition.

“As alleged, the defendant sought to recruit others to commit violent assaults and killings in furtherance of his Neo-Nazi ideologies,” stated United States Lawyer Peace. “His objective was to unfold hatred, concern and destruction by encouraging bombings, arson and even poisoning kids, for the aim of harming racial minorities, the Jewish group and homeless people.”

In response to the DOJ, Chkhikvishvili is answerable for distributing a manifesto titled the “Hater’s Handbook,” purportedly authored by “Commander Butcher and the [Maniac Murder Cult] Collective.” In it, acts of “ethnic cleaning” are allegedly inspired, as are faculty shootings, suicide bombings and different “mass killing concentrating on racial minorities” inside the US.

Chkhikvishvili finally started talking with an undercover FBI worker about recruitment, with the suspect telling the agent the group asks “folks for brutal beating, arson/explosion or homicide vids on digicam” as a part of the appliance course of, per the DOJ launch.

He then allegedly started planning “a mass casualty assault” to happen in NYC on New 12 months’s Eve.

“The scheme concerned a person dressing up as Santa Claus and handing out sweet laced with poison to racial minorities,” stated authorities. “The scheme additionally concerned offering sweet laced with poison to kids at Jewish faculties in Brooklyn.”

A display screen shot of his alleged directions for the Santa plan included within the federal criticism learn: “Use white Santa gloves and bag filled with candies. Massive beard, make-up, glasses, shave pointless physique hair and put faux white eyebrows.”

The DOJ says the suspect additionally shared “step-by-step” directions with the secret agent and stated the deliberate assault can be “greater motion than Breivik,” referring to a bombing and mass taking pictures which claimed the lives of 77 folks in Norway in 2011.

If convicted, Chkhikvishvili faces a most sentence of 20 years imprisonment for solicitation of violent felonies — together with hate crime acts and transporting an explosive with intent to kill or injure — 5 years for conspiring to solicit violent felonies, 20 years for distributing info pertaining to the making and use of explosive units, and 5 years for transmitting threatening communications.