diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michail Chkhikvishvili.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michail Chkhikvishvili.md index 1e578edd..667ee592 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michail Chkhikvishvili.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(A-G)/Michail Chkhikvishvili.md @@ -19,11 +19,11 @@ location: "Georgia (country)" ### Leadership of Maniac Murder Cult -Chkhikvishvili assumed MKY leadership following Krasnov's 2020 detention and expanded the network's geographic reach beyond its Ukrainian origins. He maintained MKY's core operational model - the "Murder Points" rank system that assigns numerical values to criminal acts escalating from vandalism through assault to terrorism - while recruiting internationally through Telegram channels and using encrypted [[Wire]] and [[Matrix]] applications for internal communications. +The [[Anti-Defamation League]] describes Chkhikvishvili as having taken over MKY leadership after Krasnov's 2020 arrest.[^2] Krasnov was meanwhile on trial in [[Dnipro]] and, according to [[Current Time]] in March 2021, still directing MKU Telegram channels from jail.[^3] The third edition of the Haters Handbook (2023), credited to Chkhikvishvili, carries Krasnov's biography.[^4] Chkhikvishvili expanded the network's geographic reach beyond its Ukrainian origins. He maintained MKY's core operational model - the "Murder Points" rank system that assigns numerical values to criminal acts escalating from vandalism through assault to terrorism - while recruiting internationally through Telegram channels and using encrypted [[Wire]] and [[Matrix]] applications for internal communications. Under his leadership, MKY members were linked to several real-world attacks, most significantly the 2022 Romanian case in which a 17-year-old livestreamed the murder of an elderly woman as an initiation act (the perpetrator was convicted in August 2023 to 14 years), and the August 2024 [[Eskisehir]] mosque stabbing in Turkey. -His alias was cited by name in the manifesto left by [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, who shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] on January 22, 2025, before dying by suicide. The [[Nashville Metropolitan Police Department]]'s January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and found no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY.[^2] +His alias was cited by name in the manifesto left by [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, who shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School in [[Nashville, Tennessee]] on January 22, 2025, before dying by suicide. The [[Nashville Metropolitan Police Department]]'s January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and found no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY.[^5] ### Indictment, Extradition, and Conviction @@ -34,4 +34,7 @@ The [[U.S. Department of Justice]] announced his extradition from Moldova in May ### Footnotes [^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges of Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2025. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-extradited-moldova-face-charges-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass -[^2]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers +[^2]: ADL, "Maniac Murder Cult (MKY, MKU, MMC)," Glossary of Extremism. https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/maniac-murder-cult-mky-mku-mmc +[^3]: Andrey Soshnikov, "Что такое «М.К.У.». Рассказываем о «культе» убийств, созданном украинскими скинхедами, и его последователях в России," Current Time, March 26, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/chto-takoe-m-k-u/31171118.html +[^4]: Marc-André Argentino, Arthur Gay and Naomi Bastin, "Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence," CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 2024. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/ +[^5]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers diff --git a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yegor Krasnov.md b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yegor Krasnov.md index b2f5a206..9c1e5807 100644 --- a/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yegor Krasnov.md +++ b/10 - PEOPLE/(H-M)/Yegor Krasnov.md @@ -6,19 +6,131 @@ tags: - NeoNazi - Accelerationism - Ukraine + - Dnipro + - Skinheads + - TerroristDesignation + - RussianPropaganda +aliases: + - Yegor Krasnov + - Egor Krasnov + - Yehor Krasnov + - Egor Manyak + - Egor Maniac + - Maniac + - Egor Yakovlev + - Yegor Yakovlev + - Егор Краснов + - Егор Маньяк + - Маньяк + - Єгор Краснов + - Егор Яковлев created: 2026-05-21 -updated: 2026-05-21 -summary: "Yegor Krasnov, alias 'Maniac,' is a Ukrainian teenager who founded Maniac Murder Cult in Dnipro around 2018, establishing its neo-Nazi accelerationist framework before being arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020." -born: 2002 +updated: 2026-10-05 +summary: "Yegor Krasnov, alias Maniac (born 2000, Dnipro), is named as founder of Maniac Murder Cult; detained in Dnipro in January 2020 on assault charges, he is wanted by Russia, whose FSB alleges Ukrainian intelligence patronage." +born: 2000 location: "Dnipro, Ukraine" +relations: + - type: founded + with: "[[Maniac Murder Cult]]" + start: 2017 + role: "Founder, alias Maniac" + fn: 3 + - type: investigated + with: "[[Federal Security Service]]" + reverse: true + start: 2021 + role: "Named by the FSB as creator of MKU, put on wanted list" + fn: 1 + - type: investigated + with: "[[Investigative Committee of Russia]]" + reverse: true + start: 2022-02 + role: "Charged in absentia with murder of two or more persons" + fn: 15 + - type: investigated + with: "[[National Police of Ukraine]]" + reverse: true + start: 2020-01 + role: "Detained in Dnipro on robbery and attempted murder suspicion" + fn: 8 --- -[[Yegor Krasnov]], known online as "Maniac," (born approximately 2002, [[Dnipro, Ukraine]]) founded [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY) in Dnipro when he was approximately 16 years old, building the organization after an alleged expulsion from another far-right formation and recruiting approximately 15 initial members. He oversaw MKY's first phase of content production - short videos of street attacks that appeared on the Russian imageboard 2chan in 2018 and then migrated to VK and [[Telegram]] in 2019 - before being arrested by [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] authorities in 2020. Following his arrest, [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] assumed operational leadership and expanded the network internationally.[^1] +[[Yegor Krasnov]] (also transliterated Egor or Yehor, Russian Егор Краснов, Ukrainian Єгор Краснов), who used the alias "Maniac" (Russian "Маньяк"), is named by the [[Federal Security Service]] (FSB), by researchers and by the [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (MKY, MKU, "Маньяки. Культ убийц") itself as the founder of that network. The FSB said in a December 2021 statement that he was a Ukrainian citizen born in 2000.[^1] He is a native of [[Dnipro]], [[Ukraine]], where he grew up in the northern Livoberezhnyi district.[^2] -MKY's core ideology - neo-Nazi accelerationism combined with theistic Satanism and the "Murder Points" tiered reward system - was established under Krasnov's founding leadership. His use of "Maniac" as an alias, and the network's name itself, referenced both his alias and the [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]], three Ukrainian teenagers who filmed and distributed murders in 2007 and whom MKY venerates as exemplary figures. +### Early life -Krasnov's legal status under Ukrainian law following his 2020 arrest has not been reported in English-language sources. His organization continued to grow substantially under Chkhikvishvili's subsequent international leadership.[^1] +The journalist [[Andrei Soshnikov]] reported for the Russian-language outlet [[Current Time]] (run by [[Radio Free Europe|Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]) in March 2021 that police in Dnipro already held a file on a Yegor Krasnov from age 11, when teachers reported that he had tortured a classmate in a school toilet to extort money. The article quotes classmates who said he spent time in a psychiatric hospital as a teenager and ran away from it, and who described him as a fighter in district-against-district brawls. Forensic experts later ruled him sane. Before the movement, Current Time wrote, he counted himself among the "ultras" of [[FC Dnipro]] and, according to his page on [[VKontakte]], fought supporters of the [[Kharkiv]] club [[FC Metalist Kharkiv|Metalist]]. He enrolled at a university to study psychology after school, and worked summers at a McDonald's.[^2] + +In correspondence with Current Time from the Dnipro jail, Krasnov claimed that in autumn 2015, at age 14, he killed a sleeping homeless man near the Karavan shopping centre in the Livoberezhnyi district. A source with access to Dnipro crime reports told the outlet that a body with injuries was found in a derelict building near the centre on November 16, 2015, but that the building differed from the one Krasnov described and that the source could not confirm the murder he narrated. Krasnov also told the outlet he was "fully certain of the deaths of 15 of my victims," without naming cases that could be checked.[^2] A "Haters Handbook" (third edition, 2023), credited to [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] and containing an alleged autobiography of Krasnov, repeats the 2015 account and describes abusive teenage parents, an interest in horror films, skinheads, school shootings and serial killers, and football-hooligan circles that led to neo-Nazi contacts. The researcher [[Marc-André Argentino]] wrote that little of this can be verified.[^3] + +### Founding of MKY + +The Haters Handbook claims that MKY has been active since 2017, which would have made Krasnov 16 or 17.[^3][^4] The same publication says the group was formed after Krasnov was pushed out of an ultra-nationalist group, and the [[Moscow]] daily [[Kommersant]] wrote in 2023, citing FSB information, that he had belonged to several neo-Nazi organisations in Ukraine but "did not fit in" and that even former associates were surprised by his emphasis on a cult of killing.[^3][^5] The earliest videos bearing the MKY name that researchers located were posted in 2018 on the imageboard [[2chan]]; in 2019 short films of street attacks, mostly in Dnipro, circulated on VKontakte profiles and in [[Telegram]] channels. Of 38 MKY-branded videos reviewed by Argentino and co-authors, 33 depicted attacks in Dnipro, several of which feature Krasnov, and three were filmed in [[Saint Petersburg]] by other people.[^4] Current Time counted the same 38 scenes and wrote that in one, "Maniac" fires a revolver from a balcony; it also reported that Krasnov mixed the footage with horrorcore tracks and that the Moscow performer [[Skabbibal]] helped him with the audio.[^2] + +Law enforcement and later researchers attribute to him the online pseudonym "Egor Yakovlev." The Moscow monitoring group [[SOVA Center]] wrote in February 2022 that, according to law enforcement, MKU was created by Krasnov "using the pseudonym Egor Yakovlev on the internet," and listed his nicknames as "Zon," "Maniac" and "Nemets" (German).[^6] Argentino's December 2024 paper for the [[Global Network on Extremism and Technology]] (GNET) repeats that the group was founded by the pseudonymous "Egor Yakovlev," whom "Russian authorities claim" was the then 21-year-old Krasnov.[^3] Images circulated by MKY channels show him with extensive tattoos of neo-Nazi and horror-film motifs, often edited to cover his face with anime characters.[^3] + +In [[Novaya Gazeta]] in March 2021, the leader of the [[Russia|Russian]] nationalist group [[Ethnic National Movement]] (ENO) said his organisation "from the start was engaged in promoting Yegor," that Krasnov had "been running around since 2019," and that his brother had sat in an ENO chat and written about him in 2020. The ENO leader said MKU "does not exist as an organisation" but is "a group of five people, most of them schoolchildren," and that Krasnov had killed no more than homeless people "lying under a bench."[^7] + +### Arrest in Dnipro, January 2020 + +The Ukrainian television channel [[ICTV]]'s Fakty reported on January 29, 2020 (without naming him) that police in Dnipro had detained a 19-year-old who beat homeless people, then used a knife, filmed the attacks and posted them online with calls to kill. The last victim, a 22-year-old, survived roughly ten stab wounds after being sprayed with gas, beaten and robbed on the city embankment. Police found the video and a promise to kill 20 more people, and the report says the suspect and two accomplices were held within hours, were in pre-trial detention, and faced a psychiatric examination; if found sane, he faced life imprisonment for attempted murder and propaganda of violence.[^8] The local outlet [[IPnews]] published the same account on the same day.[^9] + +Current Time later identified the detainee as Krasnov and described the sequence: in January 2020 security guards at a Dnipro shopping-centre café noticed a revolver (a training model firing 4 mm Flobert cartridges) that he was handling and called police. Officers detained him, searched the family flat and released him with a warning of a suspended sentence for the weapon. A knife taken in the search was then linked to a series of attacks, including the stabbing of a programmer, whose lung was pierced about two weeks before, and Krasnov was detained again outside his home and not released. Krasnov told the outlet that investigators tried to attribute three murders to him and that he refused to testify.[^2] The Dnipropetrovsk regional prosecutor's office said at the time that Krasnov had five attack episodes to his account, according to a February 2020 report by Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine cited by Novaya Gazeta.[^7] + +Kommersant gave a different date, writing in January 2023 that he was detained in December 2020 after attacking a drug-addicted young man with a knife, a victim who survived and testified.[^5] The January 2020 date is that of the contemporaneous Fakty report and Current Time's account, and Current Time's March 2021 article put him in the Dnipro Central jail "for a year."[^2][^8] + +### Trial in Dnipro + +By March 2021 Krasnov was on trial in the Kirovskyi district court of Dnipro, with hearings every two weeks, alongside a 22-year-old co-defendant, [[Mykola Kononenko]]. Current Time reported at least ten episodes in the file, three of them before the court: an attack on a Syrian medical student, the stabbing on the embankment, and a robbery in a city park involving five victims in all. Charges included robbery and attempted murder, which carries up to life. His lawyer, [[Maksym Romantsov]], argued that he had acted in a state of affect; a lawyer for the stabbing victim predicted "about ten years." A police source told the outlet that the sanity finding was sometimes made deliberately, because a psychiatric commitment would end with release after a few years.[^2] [[Meduza]] also wrote in December 2021 that the trial began in spring 2021.[^1] + +In a conversation with the outlet from his cell, Krasnov said getting a phone with internet in the jail was no problem, and that the cell phone purchases there were "all done through bought-off guards." He used it to manage MKY Telegram channels, and Current Time confirmed his involvement by contacting him. A photograph from the jail courtyard later appeared on an anonymous forum, which he denied posting.[^2] The same article quotes a participant in the [[Saint Petersburg]] cell using the name "Yaroslav" who said that the cell's recruitment, bomb-making material and channels were run with Krasnov's approval, and that the number of active participants online was about 25. MKU Telegram channels claimed "15 active cells in cities of four states."[^2] + +In December 2021 an [[Agence France-Presse]] (AFP) source in Ukrainian law enforcement told the news agency that the MKU group "did exist" but was "no longer active in Ukraine," and that Krasnov was under investigation for a series of armed attacks and a racially motivated attempted murder.[^10] SOVA Center, in February 2022, wrote that Krasnov was held in the Dnipro jail on charges brought by local law enforcement.[^6] The [[Pravo.ru]] legal news site, reporting the same month on the Moscow court order, wrote that he was in the Dnipro pre-trial detention centre.[^11] + +### The suicide report of March 2021 + +The ENO leader told Novaya Gazeta in March 2021 that a friend of Krasnov who ran the MKU Telegram communities had confirmed that Krasnov killed himself in the Dnipro jail in early March. The same source said that the administrator then posted a purported voice message from Krasnov denying his death, which ENO called a forgery posted because police were watching the channels.[^7] Current Time, whose correspondent had been writing to Krasnov for a month, published its piece on March 26, 2021, and described him as alive and attending hearings.[^2] GNET's December 2024 paper refers to the group continuing "following its founder's death" without further detail.[^3] + +### Russian proceedings + +The FSB reported in January and February 2021 a series of detentions of alleged MKU supporters, among them in [[Voronezh]], [[Gelendzhik]] and [[Yaroslavl]], saying on March 19, 2021 that a group of 14 had been "organised in 2019 under the ideological influence of a resident of Ukraine, Yegor Krasnov," and had been sent instructions by him and by Ukrainian MKU members "from Kharkiv and [[Kyiv]]."[^7] Novaya Gazeta reported that the Voronezh detainees denied any link to Ukraine, that [[Investigative Committee of Russia|Investigative Committee]] materials said nothing of such links and that Ukrainian outlet [[StopFake]] had called the group a fiction.[^7] [[Hromadske]], the Ukrainian outlet, reproduced that account.[^12] + +On December 13, 2021 the FSB announced 106 detentions in 37 regions, among them three administrators of MKU online communities and two people suspected of planning armed attacks on educational institutions. It said Krasnov was the creator of the group and "acted under the patronage of the Ukrainian special services," and that a case for complicity in murder had been opened against him in Russia and he was on an international wanted list.[^1] The [[Security Service of Ukraine]] (SBU) called the allegation false, according to Current Time.[^13] A Ukrainian security official told AFP that the allegations were a "media campaign" aimed at discrediting Kyiv.[^10] StopFake wrote that the detainees' videos showed no link to a Ukrainian neo-Nazi group and that the FSB had withheld the detainees' names.[^14] Argentino and co-authors, writing in the [[Combating Terrorism Center at West Point]]'s CTC Sentinel, described the FSB's framing as echoing Russian claims used in justifying the invasion of Ukraine and as "to be viewed skeptically."[^4] + +The Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) sought, and the [[Basmanny District Court]] of Moscow ordered on February 14, 2022, an in-absentia arrest of Krasnov on a charge of murder of two or more persons (Article 105, part 2 of the Russian Criminal Code), for two months from the date of his detention or extradition to Russia; the court said he was on an international wanted list.[^15][^6] Kommersant noted that Ukraine does not extradite its citizens and, in its view, that the order had no practical effect, adding that the FSB "did not rule out" that MKU members were connected to the SBU and other services, and that a detainee in a January 2022 case had told the FSB he received instructions from Krasnov through Telegram.[^16] Pravo.ru, citing TASS, wrote that by some reports he might be linked to the August 12, 2021 [[2021 Voronezh Bus Explosion|bus explosion in Voronezh]].[^11] A separate FSB case against him was opened under Article 282.1, part 1 (organising an extremist community) and Articles 30 and 205 (preparation of a terrorist act).[^15][^17] + +On January 16, 2023 the [[Supreme Court of Russia]], in a closed session lasting under an hour and without an opposing party, granted the claim of Prosecutor General [[Igor Krasnov]] to designate MKU a terrorist organisation and ban it, a ruling that took immediate effect. Kommersant, summarising FSB information, wrote that after his arrest Krasnov "came under the control of the SBU, whose staff provided him with a laptop and other means of communication" that he used to supervise cells in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Yaroslavl and Gelendzhik.[^5][^18][^17] + +### Security-service questions + +Several accounts place the movement's Russian branch near state agencies. "Yaroslav," a Saint Petersburg participant, told Current Time he joined MKU in 2018 on the invitation of an employee of "one Russian agency" whom he declined to name, saying he owed a debt after "doing things" that the agency helped him resolve, that he joined "to break it from inside," and that the only thing the handlers learned from him was that the leader's name was Egor and that he came from Ukraine. He added that he stayed on good terms with the officer.[^2] The outlet's interviewee for the Ukrainian context, the researcher [[Anna Gritsenko]], said Krasnov was not known in the Ukrainian neo-Nazi movement, that his story passed in Ukraine as "petty crime," and that it was hard to build a ramified network from a jail cell.[^13] + +The FSB's patronage claim, Kyiv's denial, and AFP's confirmation that a Ukrainian law-enforcement source considered the group real but inactive in Ukraine are on the record together.[^1][^10] A [[The Daily Beast|Daily Beast]] article of August 2024 (after Russian officials blamed the MKU for a plot in nine cities) quoted SOVA Center's [[Alexander Verkhovsky]] as doubting that Russian far-right radicals needed instructions from a jailed Ukrainian.[^19] + +### After the founder's detention + +The [[Anti-Defamation League]] (ADL) records that after Krasnov's 2020 arrest the [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] national Michail Chkhikvishvili ("Commander Butcher") took over leadership of the network.[^20] The [[Department of Justice|United States Department of Justice]], which does not name Krasnov, said that from about September 2021 Chkhikvishvili distributed the "Hater's Handbook" and that in 2022 he solicited violence in [[New York City|New York]].[^21] GNET wrote that the network formed alliances with NSO9A, an offshoot of [[Atomwaffen Division]] and the [[National Socialist Order]], which draws on the [[Order of Nine Angles]]. In January 2025 the [[2025 Antioch High School Shooting|Antioch High School]] shooter named Krasnov in his manifesto, listed him among names he planned to write on his weapons, and posted photographs of him, according to the ADL.[^20][^3] A "murder guide" produced by MKY and [[No Lives Matter]] contains a previously published Krasnov weapons manual, and the third edition of the Haters Handbook carries his biography.[^3][^4] ### Footnotes -[^1]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult." GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/ +[^1]: "ФСБ сообщила о задержании 106 сторонников неонацистской группировки «М.К.У.», якобы созданной под руководством украинских спецслужб" ("FSB reported the detention of 106 supporters of the neo-Nazi group MKU, allegedly created under the leadership of Ukrainian special services"), Meduza, December 13, 2021. https://meduza.io/news/2021/12/13/fsb-soobschila-o-zaderzhanii-106-storonnikov-neonatsistskoy-gruppirovki-m-k-u-yakoby-sozdannoy-pod-rukovodstvom-ukrainskih-spetssluzhb. Sole source for the FSB's birth-year statement and the trial start in spring 2021. +[^2]: Andrey Soshnikov, "Что такое «М.К.У.». Рассказываем о «культе» убийств, созданном украинскими скинхедами, и его последователях в России" ("What is MKU: the 'cult' of killings created by Ukrainian skinheads and its followers in Russia"), Current Time (Настоящее Время), March 26, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/chto-takoe-m-k-u/31171118.html. The outlet noted that those named are under investigation and only a court can find them guilty. +[^3]: Marc-André Argentino, "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult," GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/ +[^4]: Marc-André Argentino, Arthur Gay and Naomi Bastin, "Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence," CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, 2024. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/ +[^5]: Aleksey Sokovnin, "ВС запретил движение МКУ" ("Supreme Court banned the MKU movement"), Kommersant, January 16, 2023. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5773015. The FSB's statements on SBU control are attributed to the FSB in the article. +[^6]: "Заочно арестован Егор Краснов" ("Egor Krasnov arrested in absentia"), SOVA Center, February 2022. https://www.sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/news/counteraction/2022/02/d45798/ +[^7]: Denis Avidzba and Ivan Zhilin, "Егор Маньяк и его «команда»" ("Egor Maniac and his 'team'"), Novaya Gazeta, March 19, 2021. https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2021/03/19/egor-maniak-i-ego-komanda. Sole source for the ENO leader's statements, including the report of a March 2021 suicide. +[^8]: Valentyna Letiak, "Різав ножем і знімав на відео: у Дніпрі затримали 19-річного маніяка," Fakty ICTV, January 29, 2020. https://fakty.com.ua/ua/proisshestvija/20200129-rizav-nozhem-i-znimav-na-video-u-dnipri-zatrymaly-19-richnogo-maniyaka/ +[^9]: "Планировал массовые убийства: в Днепре орудовал 19-летний маньяк," IPnews, January 29, 2020 (archived May 12, 2021). https://web.archive.org/web/20210512194147id_/https://ipne.ws/novosti-dnepra/kriminal-i-proisshestviya/planiroval-massovye-ubiystva-v-dnepr/ +[^10]: "Russia arrests over 100 suspects linked to Ukrainian neo-Nazi group," Euronews (with AFP), December 13, 2021. https://euronews.com/2021/12/13/russia-arrests-over-100-suspects-linked-to-ukrainian-neo-nazi-group +[^11]: "Суд в Москве заочно арестовал лидера одной из неонацистских групп Украины," Pravo.ru, February 15, 2022. https://pravo.ru/news/239163/ +[^12]: "Егор Маньяк и его «команда». Как ФСБ опять «нашла» в России «украинских нацистов»," Hromadske, March 23, 2021. https://hromadske.ua/ru/posts/egor-manyak-i-ego-komanda-kak-fsb-opyat-nashla-v-rossii-ukrainskih-nacistov +[^13]: Aleksey Aleksandrov, "«Из СИЗО создать такую разветвленную сеть сложно». Что в Украине знают об «основателе М.К.У.»," Current Time, December 14, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/iz-sizo-sozdat-takuyu/31608632.html +[^14]: "Russia's FSB Detains More 'Ukrainian Neo-Nazis'. Invests Over a Year in Its 'MKU' Fake," StopFake, December 2021. https://www.stopfake.org/?p=128477. +[^15]: "Суд в Москве заочно арестовал лидера украинской радикальной группировки «М.К.У.»," Kommersant, February 15, 2022. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5216949 +[^16]: "Следственный комитет России хочет арестовать лидера украинской радикальной группы «М.К.У.»," Kommersant, February 14, 2022. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5216687 +[^17]: "Верховный суд признал террористическим движение «Маньяки: культ убийства»," RAPSI, January 16, 2023. https://rapsinews.ru/judicial_news/20230116/308619581.html +[^18]: "Верховный суд России объявил движение «М.К.У.» террористической организацией," Meduza, January 16, 2023. https://meduza.io/news/2023/01/16/verhovnyy-sud-rossii-priznal-dvizhenie-m-k-u-manyaki-kult-ubiystv-terroristicheskoy-organizatsiey +[^19]: "Pro-Kremlin Propaganda Says FSB Busted Neo-Nazi Terror Plot in 9 Cities," The Daily Beast, August 2024. https://www.thedailybeast.com/kremlin-claims-it-busted-neo-nazi-terror-plot-in-9-cities/ +[^20]: ADL, "Maniac Murder Cult (MKY, MKU, MMC)," Glossary of Extremism. https://extremismterms.adl.org/glossary/maniac-murder-cult-mky-mku-mmc +[^21]: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Maniac Murder Cult.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Maniac Murder Cult.md index 5f185e9a..783732d1 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Maniac Murder Cult.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/Maniac Murder Cult.md @@ -13,22 +13,22 @@ start: 2017 location: "Dnipro, Ukraine (online, global)" created: 2026-05-21 updated: 2026-10-04 -summary: "Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian neo-Nazi accelerationist network whose 'Murder Points' system rewards escalating real-world violence, proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025, with leader Michail Chkhikvishvili sentenced to 15 years in U.S. federal prison in 2026." +summary: "Maniac Murder Cult (MKY) is a Ukrainian-founded neo-Nazi accelerationist network rewarding escalating violence through 'Murder Points,' proscribed by the UK and Canada in 2025; its leader Michail Chkhikvishvili received 15 years in 2026." --- [[Maniac Murder Cult]] (also known as MKY, MKU, MMC, Maniacs Murder Cult, and Maniacs: Cult of Killing) is a neo-Nazi accelerationist organization founded in [[Dnipro]], [[Ukraine]], approximately 2017-2018 by [[Yegor Krasnov]] ("Maniac") when he was approximately 16 years old. It combines explicit national socialism, theistic Satanism, and extreme misanthropy into an ideology it calls [[Racial Holy War|RaHoWa]] (Racial Holy War), and it implements a tiered "Murder Points" reward system that incentivizes escalating real-world violence as a form of organizational advancement. The group's self-declared terrorist identity and its encouragement of livestreamed attacks distinguishes it analytically from purely nihilistic networks within [[The Com]] ecosystem. The UK proscribed MKY as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2025; Canada listed it alongside [[764 Network|764]] and [[Terrorgram Collective]] on December 10, 2025.[^1] ### Origins in Dnipro -Krasnov founded the group in Dnipro after an alleged expulsion from another far-right formation, taking approximately 15 members with him. The group's first branded content (short videos of street attacks) appeared on the Russian imageboard 2chan in 2018, then migrated to VK and [[Telegram]] in 2019. The name derives from Krasnov's alias and the group's ideological framing of murder as a spiritual and political act. +The Haters Handbook (third edition, 2023) says Krasnov founded the group after being pushed out of an ultra-nationalist group, and claims MKY has been active since 2017.[^2] [[Kommersant]], citing [[Federal Security Service|FSB]] information, wrote in 2023 that he had belonged to several neo-Nazi organizations in Ukraine but did not fit in.[^3] The group's first branded content (short videos of street attacks) appeared on the Russian imageboard [[2chan]] in 2018, then migrated to [[VKontakte|VK]] and [[Telegram]] in 2019.[^1] -Ukrainian authorities arrested Krasnov in 2020, after which [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] assumed operational leadership. Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian national who used the alias "Commander Butcher," expanded the network's international reach and shifted its recruitment toward Telegram and [[Wire]]/[[Matrix]] for encrypted internal communications distinct from its public-facing channels.[^2] +Police in Dnipro detained Krasnov in January 2020 after a knife attack on the city embankment was filmed and posted online;[^4] by March 2021 he was on trial in the Kirovskyi district court of Dnipro with a co-defendant on robbery and attempted murder charges, and was still directing MKY Telegram channels from jail.[^5] After his arrest, [[Michail Chkhikvishvili]] assumed operational leadership. Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian national who used the alias "Commander Butcher," expanded the network's international reach and shifted its recruitment toward Telegram and [[Wire]]/[[Matrix]] for encrypted internal communications distinct from its public-facing channels.[^2] ### Ideology and Murder Points System MKY's ideological framework combines three elements: neo-Nazi accelerationism (the belief that mass violence against Jews, racial minorities, and LGBTQ+ individuals will precipitate societal collapse and enable a fascist reconstitution), theistic Satanism drawn from [[Order of Nine Angles|O9A]]-adjacent traditions, and a misanthropic exaltation of serial killers and mass murderers as exemplary figures. Venerated "saints" include the 2019 [[Brenton Tarrant|Christchurch]] attacker, [[Ted Kaczynski]] (the Unabomber), and the [[Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs]] - three Ukrainian teenagers who filmed and distributed murders in 2007. -The "Murder Points" system operationalizes this ideology through a formal rank structure: crimes earn different point values (higher for more severe acts), with accumulated points translating to elevated rank within the network. A documented tier hierarchy means members progress from vandalism through assault to arson to terrorism and murder, with the network's internal status architecture rewarding escalation. This distinguishes MKY from the largely status-driven nihilism of other Com subgroups: MKY's violence serves both internal rank and stated ideological goals.[^3] +The "Murder Points" system operationalizes this ideology through a formal rank structure: crimes earn different point values (higher for more severe acts), with accumulated points translating to elevated rank within the network. A documented tier hierarchy means members progress from vandalism through assault to arson to terrorism and murder, with the network's internal status architecture rewarding escalation. This distinguishes MKY from the largely status-driven nihilism of other Com subgroups: MKY's violence serves both internal rank and stated ideological goals.[^6] ### International Reach and Attributed Violence @@ -40,23 +40,30 @@ Though Ukrainian in origin, MKY expanded internationally through Telegram recrui [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]] (January 22, 2025): [[Solomon Henderson]], 17, shot and killed student [[Josselin Corea Escalante]] at Antioch High School before dying by suicide. Henderson's manifesto cited MKY and named Chkhikvishvili specifically. Nashville Metropolitan Police Department's January 2026 investigative update concluded Henderson had no co-conspirators and that there was no evidence of direct operational direction from MKY. -[[Sweden]] (2024): A 14-year-old known online as "Slain764" stabbed two elderly individuals; at least six additional attacks were recorded and promoted on Telegram by this individual before their arrest in September 2024. The ISD and ADL attribute this activity to the intersection of 764 and MKY networks.[^4] +[[Sweden]] (2024): A 14-year-old known online as "Slain764" stabbed two elderly individuals; at least six additional attacks were recorded and promoted on Telegram by this individual before their arrest in September 2024. The ISD and ADL attribute this activity to the intersection of 764 and MKY networks.[^7] ### Prosecutions and Designations The primary prosecution of MKY leadership was brought by the [[United States Department of Justice|U.S. Department of Justice]] against Michail Chkhikvishvili in the Eastern District of New York. Chkhikvishvili was indicted in July 2024 for soliciting hate crimes and planning a mass casualty attack in New York City. He was arrested in [[Chisinau]], Moldova in July 2024 and extradited to the United States in May 2025. He pleaded guilty in November 2025 and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Carol Bagley Amon in May 2026. -Yegor Krasnov, the founder, was arrested by Ukrainian authorities in 2020. His subsequent legal status under Ukrainian law has not been reported in English-language sources. +Krasnov was held in the Dnipro pre-trial detention center while on trial in 2021. The FSB said in December 2021 that he acted under the patronage of Ukrainian special services, which the [[Security Service of Ukraine]] called false.[^8][^9] The [[Basmanny District Court]] of [[Moscow]] arrested him in absentia on February 14, 2022 on a charge of murdering two or more persons, and the [[Supreme Court of Russia]] designated MKU a terrorist organization on January 16, 2023, on a claim by Prosecutor General [[Igor Krasnov]].[^10][^11] -Alongside the U.S. prosecution, the UK proscribed MKY as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2025, making membership a criminal offense in England and Wales. Canada designated MKY as a terrorist entity on December 10, 2025, in the same order that designated 764 and Terrorgram Collective.[^5] +Alongside the U.S. prosecution, the UK proscribed MKY as a terrorist organization on July 2, 2025, making membership a criminal offense in England and Wales. Canada designated MKY as a terrorist entity on December 10, 2025, in the same order that designated 764 and Terrorgram Collective.[^12] -A [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]], Alabama indictment reported on December 5, 2025 names MKU (Maniac Murder Cult), 764 and [[No Lives Matter]] as groups with which [[Carson Albert Butler]] allegedly conspired against [[Athens High School]] students and staff; see [[Athens High School Terrorism Case]].[^6] +A [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]], Alabama indictment reported on December 5, 2025 names MKU (Maniac Murder Cult), 764 and [[No Lives Matter]] as groups with which [[Carson Albert Butler]] allegedly conspired against [[Athens High School]] students and staff; see [[Athens High School Terrorism Case]].[^13] ### Footnotes [^1]: Argentino, Marc-Andre, Gay, Arthur, and Bastin, Naomi. "Nihilism and Terror: How M.K.Y. Is Redefining Terrorism, Recruitment, and Mass Violence." CTC Sentinel, Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. August/September 2024. https://ctc.westpoint.edu/nihilism-and-terror-how-m-k-y-is-redefining-terrorism-recruitment-and-mass-violence/ [^2]: Argentino, Marc-Andre. "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult." GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/ -[^3]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764 -[^4]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers; ISD. "From sextortion to violence: The threat of the 764 network in the US." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/from-sextortion-to-violence-the-evolving-threat-of-the-764-network-in-the-us/ -[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; Government of Canada. "Government of Canada Lists Four New Terrorist Entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html -[^6]: Wesley Tomlinson, "Indictment: Teen committed terrorism, attempted murder targeting Athens High staff, students," The Decatur Daily, December 5, 2025, https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/limestone_county/indictment-teen-committed-terrorism-attempted-murder-targeting-athens-high-staff-students/article_f6921221-e422-4cb9-a33d-acc4b3430aa4.html +[^3]: Aleksey Sokovnin, "ВС запретил движение МКУ," Kommersant, January 16, 2023. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5773015 +[^4]: Valentyna Letiak, "Різав ножем і знімав на відео: у Дніпрі затримали 19-річного маніяка," Fakty ICTV, January 29, 2020. https://fakty.com.ua/ua/proisshestvija/20200129-rizav-nozhem-i-znimav-na-video-u-dnipri-zatrymaly-19-richnogo-maniyaka/ +[^5]: Andrey Soshnikov, "Что такое «М.К.У.». Рассказываем о «культе» убийств, созданном украинскими скинхедами, и его последователях в России," Current Time, March 26, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/chto-takoe-m-k-u/31171118.html +[^6]: ADL. "764." https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/764 +[^7]: ADL. "Antioch, Tenn. Shooter Inspired by Broad Extremist Beliefs and Previous Mass Killers." https://www.adl.org/resources/article/antioch-tenn-shooter-inspired-broad-extremist-beliefs-and-previous-mass-killers; ISD. "From sextortion to violence: The threat of the 764 network in the US." https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/from-sextortion-to-violence-the-evolving-threat-of-the-764-network-in-the-us/ +[^8]: "ФСБ сообщила о задержании 106 сторонников неонацистской группировки «М.К.У.»," Meduza, December 13, 2021. https://meduza.io/news/2021/12/13/fsb-soobschila-o-zaderzhanii-106-storonnikov-neonatsistskoy-gruppirovki-m-k-u-yakoby-sozdannoy-pod-rukovodstvom-ukrainskih-spetssluzhb +[^9]: Aleksey Aleksandrov, "«Из СИЗО создать такую разветвленную сеть сложно». Что в Украине знают об «основателе М.К.У.»," Current Time, December 14, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/iz-sizo-sozdat-takuyu/31608632.html +[^10]: "Суд в Москве заочно арестовал лидера украинской радикальной группировки «М.К.У.»," Kommersant, February 15, 2022. https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5216949 +[^11]: "Верховный суд России объявил движение «М.К.У.» террористической организацией," Meduza, January 16, 2023. https://meduza.io/news/2023/01/16/verhovnyy-sud-rossii-priznal-dvizhenie-m-k-u-manyaki-kult-ubiystv-terroristicheskoy-organizatsiey +[^12]: U.S. Department of Justice, OPA. "Georgian National Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack." May 2026. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/georgian-national-sentenced-15-years-prison-soliciting-hate-crimes-and-planning-mass; Government of Canada. "Government of Canada Lists Four New Terrorist Entities." December 10, 2025. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-safety-canada/news/2025/12/government-of-canada-lists-four-new-terrorist-entities0.html +[^13]: Wesley Tomlinson, "Indictment: Teen committed terrorism, attempted murder targeting Athens High staff, students," The Decatur Daily, December 5, 2025, https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/limestone_county/indictment-teen-committed-terrorism-attempted-murder-targeting-athens-high-staff-students/article_f6921221-e422-4cb9-a33d-acc4b3430aa4.html diff --git a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md index bbf7eac2..b481434c 100644 --- a/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md +++ b/20 - ORGANIZATIONS/No Lives Matter.md @@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ NLM recruits primarily through Telegram channels with limited content moderation Entry requirements escalate: documented acts range from vandalism and arson through beatings and stabbings to murder and mass murder. Recording and livestreaming attacks is a core requirement. This documentation-as-status dynamic, which researchers have compared to the "Columbine Effect" of copycat inspiration, is the mechanism by which NLM converted online activity into real-world violence across multiple countries.[^5] -In July 2024, NLM announced a formal alliance with Mordwaffen Division (MWD), a European neo-Nazi group. The Swedish branch of NLM operates under the name Mordwaffen ("mord" is Swedish for "murder"). NLM has also maintained ties to Maniac Murder Cult (MKY/M.K.Y.), a Ukrainian-origin nihilistic network founded circa 2017-2018 by the pseudonymous "Egor Yakovlev" (identified by Russian authorities as Yegor Krasnov, a Ukrainian national). NLM is described in some analyses as the English-language hub of MKY's international network.[^6] +In July 2024, NLM announced a formal alliance with Mordwaffen Division (MWD), a European neo-Nazi group. The Swedish branch of NLM operates under the name Mordwaffen ("mord" is Swedish for "murder"). NLM has also maintained ties to Maniac Murder Cult (MKY/M.K.Y.), a nihilistic network founded in [[Dnipro]], Ukraine, around 2017 by [[Yegor Krasnov]] ("Maniac"), who according to Russian law enforcement used the online pseudonym "Egor Yakovlev";[^6] Krasnov has been in Ukrainian custody in Dnipro since January 2020.[^7][^8] NLM is described in some analyses as the English-language hub of MKY's international network.[^9] ### Relationship to 764 and Scattered Spider NLM is distinct from 764 in operational focus: 764 centers on sextortion and coercion into CSAM as its core criminal activity, while NLM centers on real-world physical violence and the glorification of mass casualty attacks. NLM formally severed its alliance with 764 in May 2024. Both networks exist within The Com's broader Offline Com pillar, however, and personnel overlap has been documented. -Scattered Spider operates in The Com's Cyber Com pillar and has no direct documented operational relationship with NLM. The connection is structural: both are products of the same decentralized Com ecosystem, not affiliated organizations with shared leadership or operational coordination. Researchers at SANS have noted that Cyber Com, Extortion Com, and Offline Com share cultural markers and personnel pipelines, but NLM's specific activities are not cyber-focused and no credible source has documented a direct Scattered Spider-NLM operational link.[^7] +Scattered Spider operates in The Com's Cyber Com pillar and has no direct documented operational relationship with NLM. The connection is structural: both are products of the same decentralized Com ecosystem, not affiliated organizations with shared leadership or operational coordination. Researchers at SANS have noted that Cyber Com, Extortion Com, and Offline Com share cultural markers and personnel pipelines, but NLM's specific activities are not cyber-focused and no credible source has documented a direct Scattered Spider-NLM operational link.[^10] ### Documented Violence @@ -74,13 +74,13 @@ Scattered Spider operates in The Com's Cyber Com pillar and has no direct docume A 14-year-old boy, known online as "Slain764," who claimed to lead the Swedish NLM cell operating under the name Mordwaffen, carried out multiple unprovoked knife attacks in the Hässelby suburb of [[Stockholm]]. Swedish state broadcaster SVT reported at least six to eight separate attacks in the area. Documented incidents include: - An attempted murder of an elderly woman in July 2024. - An attempted murder of an 80-year-old man in September 2024, who was stabbed multiple times, suffered a punctured lung, and was hospitalized. The victim later described himself as "grateful to be alive." -All attacks were filmed and uploaded to Telegram to gain status within NLM and 764 networks. Because the attacker was under 15 years of age at the time, he could not be held criminally responsible under Swedish law. An administrative court ordered him placed into care under Sweden's Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act. Swedish prosecutors classified the case as terrorism-related due to its intent to spread public fear.[^8] +All attacks were filmed and uploaded to Telegram to gain status within NLM and 764 networks. Because the attacker was under 15 years of age at the time, he could not be held criminally responsible under Swedish law. An administrative court ordered him placed into care under Sweden's Care of Young Persons (Special Provisions) Act. Swedish prosecutors classified the case as terrorism-related due to its intent to spread public fear.[^11] #### Sweden - Borås (January 2025) -A separate 14-year-old boy with documented connections to 764 and NLM stabbed a woman in the back while she was walking her dog. The attack was livestreamed on the internet. The attacker later confessed during an evidence hearing at Borås District Court. Prosecutor Louise Bremander confirmed the boy's connections to both 764 and NLM. The attacker told police he had difficulty making friends and wanted to gain status in the online group, and claimed other group members had pressured him to commit the attack. He was subsequently found guilty of the assault. The case has been examined in the context of The Com's cross-border influence on Nordic youth.[^9] +A separate 14-year-old boy with documented connections to 764 and NLM stabbed a woman in the back while she was walking her dog. The attack was livestreamed on the internet. The attacker later confessed during an evidence hearing at Borås District Court. Prosecutor Louise Bremander confirmed the boy's connections to both 764 and NLM. The attacker told police he had difficulty making friends and wanted to gain status in the online group, and claimed other group members had pressured him to commit the attack. He was subsequently found guilty of the assault. The case has been examined in the context of The Com's cross-border influence on Nordic youth.[^12] #### Other Jurisdictions -ISD research linked nihilistic violence subcultures including NLM to at least four school shooters and five disrupted school shooting plots, as well as a foiled plot in Italy involving a 15-year-old who planned to murder a homeless person and livestream it. A man in Virginia was arrested in possession of approximately 150 explosive devices; his backpack displayed a "#NoLivesMatter" patch, indicating ideological alignment. The FBI has stated it opened more than 250 investigations into related cases spanning all 55 of its field offices across the United States.[^10] +ISD research linked nihilistic violence subcultures including NLM to at least four school shooters and five disrupted school shooting plots, as well as a foiled plot in Italy involving a 15-year-old who planned to murder a homeless person and livestream it. A man in Virginia was arrested in possession of approximately 150 explosive devices; his backpack displayed a "#NoLivesMatter" patch, indicating ideological alignment. The FBI has stated it opened more than 250 investigations into related cases spanning all 55 of its field offices across the United States.[^13] ### Arrest and Prosecution of Justin B. @@ -103,15 +103,15 @@ The OM characterized NLM as "a terrorist organization aimed at committing or com B.'s defense argued that he had a history of mental health problems since youth, that others had built NLM's structure around him and his online persona, and that he was not the active operational leader the prosecution characterized him as.[^2] #### Expanded Charges (March 2026) -The OM subsequently expanded the indictment against Justin B. to include: rape of an underage ex-girlfriend between November 2019 and June 2020; possession, creation, and distribution of child pornography in May 2020; and forcing a girl to submit to indecent acts later in 2020. These charges preceded NLM's formation and concern personal conduct rather than organizational leadership. The trial was scheduled to continue in June 2026.[^11] +The OM subsequently expanded the indictment against Justin B. to include: rape of an underage ex-girlfriend between November 2019 and June 2020; possession, creation, and distribution of child pornography in May 2020; and forcing a girl to submit to indecent acts later in 2020. These charges preceded NLM's formation and concern personal conduct rather than organizational leadership. The trial was scheduled to continue in June 2026.[^14] As of the time of writing, no subsequent court proceedings beyond the October 28, 2025 preliminary hearing and the March 2026 expanded charge filing have been reported in English-language sources. Justin B. remains in pre-trial detention at PI Vught. ### Other Arrests -No Lives Matter members beyond Justin B. have been arrested in connection with NLM-specific charges. The broader 764 network has seen extensive law enforcement action: between 2020 and 2025, 191 members of 764 or affiliated groups across 28 countries were arrested for sextortion, CSAM possession, or violent attacks. The two Swedish teenage attackers described above were subject to administrative rather than criminal proceedings due to their ages. No other named NLM members have been reported as arrested on NLM-specific terrorism charges as of this writing.[^6] +No Lives Matter members beyond Justin B. have been arrested in connection with NLM-specific charges. The broader 764 network has seen extensive law enforcement action: between 2020 and 2025, 191 members of 764 or affiliated groups across 28 countries were arrested for sextortion, CSAM possession, or violent attacks. The two Swedish teenage attackers described above were subject to administrative rather than criminal proceedings due to their ages. No other named NLM members have been reported as arrested on NLM-specific terrorism charges as of this writing.[^9] -A [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]], Alabama indictment reported on December 5, 2025 names No Lives Matter, [[764 Network|764]] and MKU ([[Maniac Murder Cult]]) as groups with which [[Carson Albert Butler]] allegedly conspired against [[Athens High School]] students and staff; see [[Athens High School Terrorism Case]].[^12] +A [[Limestone County, Alabama|Limestone County]], Alabama indictment reported on December 5, 2025 names No Lives Matter, [[764 Network|764]] and MKU ([[Maniac Murder Cult]]) as groups with which [[Carson Albert Butler]] allegedly conspired against [[Athens High School]] students and staff; see [[Athens High School Terrorism Case]].[^15] ### Academic and Policy Research @@ -132,10 +132,13 @@ The following institutional analyses of NLM are cited in the secondary literatur [^3]: "Founder of No Lives Matter Arrested on Child Abuse and Terrorism Charges," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, 2025. https://globalextremism.org/post/founder-of-no-lives-matter-arrested-on-child-abuse-and-terrorism-charges/ [^4]: "No Lives Matter Updates Extremist Messaging and Publishes Tactical Guides," New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, August 21, 2024. https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2. Archived: https://archive.org/details/no-lives-matter-nlm [^5]: "No Future, Only Violence: Unpacking the Propaganda of No Lives Matter (NLM)," Stockholm University DIVA portal. https://su.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1979977/FULLTEXT01.pdf -[^6]: "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult," GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/ -[^7]: "Defending Against SCATTERED SPIDER and The Com with Cybercrime Intelligence," SANS Institute. https://www.sans.org/blog/defending-against-scattered-spider-and-the-com-with-cybercrime-intelligence/ -[^8]: TRAC Incident Report: "14-Year-Old Boy Taken Into Custody on Suspicion of Carrying Out a Knife Attack on a Woman and an Elderly in the Name of the No Lives Matter (NLM) and Satanic 764 Groups, Hässelby, Stockholm, Sweden - 19 October 2024." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/boy-knife-attack-satanic-764-hasselby-stockholm-sweden-trac/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Nihilism and Misanthropy Unleashed: The 764 Network and No Lives Matter's NEW Ideological Manifesto and the Hässelby Attack." https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleashed-the-764-network-and-no-lives-matters-new-ideological-manifesto-and-the-hasselby-attack/ -[^9]: "Teen Found Guilty in Borås Sect-Related Knife Attack," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/teen-found-guilty-in-boras-knife-attack-linked-to-violent-network. See also "Online Sect's Influence on Teen Knife Attacks Faces Court Scrutiny," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/online-sects-influence-on-teen-knife-attacks-faces-court-scrutiny -[^10]: "Terror without ideology? The rise of nihilistic violence," Institute for Strategic Dialogue. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/terror-without-ideology-the-rise-of-nihilistic-violence-an-isd-investigation/ -[^11]: "Sadistische Justin B. ook verdacht van verkrachting en kinderpornobezit," *Omroep Brabant*. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6004745/sadistische-justin-b-ook-verdacht-van-verkrachting-en-kinderpornobezit. See also *Omroep Brabant*: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4770072/sadistische-justin-b-uit-eindhoven-was-oprichter-terreurnetwerk-volgens-om -[^12]: Wesley Tomlinson, "Indictment: Teen committed terrorism, attempted murder targeting Athens High staff, students," The Decatur Daily, December 5, 2025, https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/limestone_county/indictment-teen-committed-terrorism-attempted-murder-targeting-athens-high-staff-students/article_f6921221-e422-4cb9-a33d-acc4b3430aa4.html +[^6]: "Заочно арестован Егор Краснов," SOVA Center, February 2022. https://www.sova-center.ru/racism-xenophobia/news/counteraction/2022/02/d45798/ +[^7]: Valentyna Letiak, "Різав ножем і знімав на відео: у Дніпрі затримали 19-річного маніяка," Fakty ICTV, January 29, 2020. https://fakty.com.ua/ua/proisshestvija/20200129-rizav-nozhem-i-znimav-na-video-u-dnipri-zatrymaly-19-richnogo-maniyaka/ +[^8]: Andrey Soshnikov, "Что такое «М.К.У.». Рассказываем о «культе» убийств, созданном украинскими скинхедами, и его последователях в России," Current Time, March 26, 2021. https://www.currenttime.tv/a/chto-takoe-m-k-u/31171118.html +[^9]: "The 764 Network: A Global Threat for Child Abuse and Radicalization," Global Project Against Hate and Extremism. https://globalextremism.org/post/764-network/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Brotherhood of Blood: Understanding the Origins and Trajectory of the Maniac Murder Cult," GNET, December 4, 2024. https://gnet-research.org/2024/12/04/brotherhood-of-blood-understanding-the-origins-and-trajectory-of-the-maniac-murder-cult/ +[^10]: "Defending Against SCATTERED SPIDER and The Com with Cybercrime Intelligence," SANS Institute. https://www.sans.org/blog/defending-against-scattered-spider-and-the-com-with-cybercrime-intelligence/ +[^11]: TRAC Incident Report: "14-Year-Old Boy Taken Into Custody on Suspicion of Carrying Out a Knife Attack on a Woman and an Elderly in the Name of the No Lives Matter (NLM) and Satanic 764 Groups, Hässelby, Stockholm, Sweden - 19 October 2024." https://trackingterrorism.org/chatter/boy-knife-attack-satanic-764-hasselby-stockholm-sweden-trac/. See also Marc-André Argentino, "Nihilism and Misanthropy Unleashed: The 764 Network and No Lives Matter's NEW Ideological Manifesto and the Hässelby Attack." https://www.maargentino.com/nihilism-and-misanthropy-unleashed-the-764-network-and-no-lives-matters-new-ideological-manifesto-and-the-hasselby-attack/ +[^12]: "Teen Found Guilty in Borås Sect-Related Knife Attack," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/teen-found-guilty-in-boras-knife-attack-linked-to-violent-network. See also "Online Sect's Influence on Teen Knife Attacks Faces Court Scrutiny," *Sweden Herald*. https://swedenherald.com/article/online-sects-influence-on-teen-knife-attacks-faces-court-scrutiny +[^13]: "Terror without ideology? The rise of nihilistic violence," Institute for Strategic Dialogue. https://www.isdglobal.org/digital-dispatch/terror-without-ideology-the-rise-of-nihilistic-violence-an-isd-investigation/ +[^14]: "Sadistische Justin B. ook verdacht van verkrachting en kinderpornobezit," *Omroep Brabant*. https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/6004745/sadistische-justin-b-ook-verdacht-van-verkrachting-en-kinderpornobezit. See also *Omroep Brabant*: https://www.omroepbrabant.nl/nieuws/4770072/sadistische-justin-b-uit-eindhoven-was-oprichter-terreurnetwerk-volgens-om +[^15]: Wesley Tomlinson, "Indictment: Teen committed terrorism, attempted murder targeting Athens High staff, students," The Decatur Daily, December 5, 2025, https://www.decaturdaily.com/news/limestone_county/indictment-teen-committed-terrorism-attempted-murder-targeting-athens-high-staff-students/article_f6921221-e422-4cb9-a33d-acc4b3430aa4.html