National Socialism / White Power
Russian Neo-Nazi extremist group
National Socialism / White Power Crew (NS/WP Crew, also known as Sparrows Crew), is a Neo-Nazi extremist group operating in Russia. In 2021, it was designated by the Supreme Court of Russia as a terrorist organization.
History
According to Mediazona, many unrelated neo-Nazi groups used the NS/WP abbreviation in the 2000s.
In 2010, two NS/WP members were charged with the murder of a 25-year-old Ghanaian citizen, Solomon Attengo Gwa-jio who was stabbed over 20 times on 25 December 2009 in Saint Petersburg.
In 2014, nine members of this organization, aged 17 to 24, were sentenced to 4–9 years in prison for a series of murders, attacks and robberies, as well as committing other crimes motivated by ethnic hatred. Members of the organization recorded one of the murders on camera and posted it on the Internet. In addition, they set fire to a car with two homeless people sleeping in it and carried out several more attacks on foreigners and people leading an asocial lifestyle, according to the prosecution. Members of the group were also found guilty of setting fire to a temple, a construction crane, and blowing up a public transport stop using a makeshift device. The last crime was regarded as a terrorist attack.
On 21 May 2021, the movement was recognized as a terrorist organization by the authorities of the Russian Federation and banned.
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