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category: "Extremism & Violent Networks"
tags:
  - Person
  - FeuerkriegDivision
  - NeoNazi
  - Accelerationism
  - Lithuania
  - TerroristConviction
  - Europe
location: "Vilnius, Lithuania"
created: 2026-05-22
updated: 2026-05-22
summary: "Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian Feuerkrieg Division member convicted by Vilnius Regional Court in September 2020 for planting a homemade explosive device outside a Vilnius Western Union office in October 2019, representing one of the first European criminal convictions of an FKD member."
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Gediminas Beržinskas was a Lithuanian national and [[Feuerkrieg Division]] (FKD) member who planted a homemade explosive device outside a [[Western Union]] office in [[Vilnius]] on 14 October 2019 and spray-painted "FK Division," "Siege," and a swastika on the building's wall on 6 October 2019. He was detained on 15 October 2019, convicted by [[Vilnius Regional Court]], and sentenced to a net approximately 18 further months of custody under an expedited procedure that reduced the underlying term by one-third.[^1]

### Vilnius Attack

Beržinskas's two acts of political violence in Vilnius in October 2019 were ideologically consistent with [[Siege Culture]] and FKD's propaganda: the spray-painted messaging explicitly invoked both FKD's name and James Mason's [[Siege]], the foundational accelerationist text that underpins FKD's ideology. The bomb placement was an act of domestic terrorism aimed at financial infrastructure, consistent with the [[Atomwaffen Division]] accelerationist playbook of attacking institutional targets to precipitate societal collapse.

Lithuanian law enforcement found bomb-making materials and a firearm in Beržinskas's possession at the time of his detention. Vilnius Regional Court convicted him of plotting a terror act, illegal possession of explosives and a firearm, and attempting to commit a crime. The case was examined under an expedited procedure.[^1]

### UK Connection

During the period of Beržinskas's attack planning, he was in contact with [[Paul Dunleavy]], a 17-year-old FKD member from [[Rugby]], Warwickshire, who provided him and other FKD members with firearm-conversion manuals and device-building guidance. Dunleavy's provision of that guidance was prosecuted in the United Kingdom as preparation for acts of terrorism. Dunleavy's November 2020 sentencing at [[Birmingham Crown Court]] specifically referenced the convictions in Lithuania, Germany, and the United States of three FKD members to whom Dunleavy had given assistance. British authorities separately noted the cross-border causal chain in public statements.[^2]

Beržinskas's case therefore sits at the junction of two national prosecutions: the first-instance conviction in Lithuania and the downstream conviction of his UK-based adviser. The cases represent the most clearly documented instance of transnational criminal causation within the FKD network's documented history.

### Footnotes

[^1]: LRT (Lithuanian National Radio and Television). "Lithuanian neo-Nazi receives 28-month sentence for attempting terror attack." September 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1235208/lithuanian-neo-nazi-receives-28-month-sentence-for-attempting-terror-attack; LRT. "Neo-Nazi admits to plotting terror attacks in Lithuanian capital." 2020. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1222876/neo-nazi-admits-to-plotting-terror-attacks-in-lithuanian-capital
[^2]: LRT. "Britain sentences teenager who 'advised' Lithuanian neo-Nazi terrorist." 2021. https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1274096/britain-sentences-teenager-who-advised-lithuanian-neo-nazi-terrorist; Express and Star. "Boy, 17, sentenced to detention for preparing neo-Nazi acts of terrorism." November 6, 2020. https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2020/11/06/boy-17-sentenced-to-detention-for-preparing-neo-nazi-acts-of-terrorism/