Monday, May 14, 2007

Jew stabbed to death in Russia

From Ynet News, 12/5/07, by Yaakov Lappin ...

22 year-old St. Petersburg man found dead ... friends say murder 'was anti-Semitic'

A Russian Jew has been stabbed to death in northern St. Petersburg....Dimitri Nikoulinsky, 22, was found dead with knife wounds to his throat by his mother minutes after the assault, his friend said. Two members of the Jewish community said the attack was "exactly" like other lethal assaults carried out by neo-Nazi groups against foreign students and an anti-fascist activist, and are convinced that the attack was a hate-crime.

....Nikoulinsky was a student at St. Petersburg State University, and was in his final year of studying for an MA. He also taught in a local Beit Chabad Yeshiva. Although he did not wear a kippa, Nikoulinsky did "not look Russian at all, and had a very Jewish look," a female employee of a Russian Jewish organization told Ynetnews.

"We are sure this was a hate crime because we have had a series of hate crimes of the same nature. The men who assaulted Dimitri took nothing from him," Nikoulinsky's friend said. "I think this was a neo-Nazi crimes," he added.....

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