Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old from Georgia, has actually been extradited to the United States from Moldova after federal authorities state he led a “murder cult” and attempted to toxin trainees at Brooklyn Jewish schools.
Chkhikvishvili– referred to as “Leader Butcher,” according to district attorneys– was apprehended in Chișinău, Moldova last summer season after he was prosecuted in New york city on charges of obtaining hate criminal offenses and acts of mass violence.
District attorneys state Chkhikvishvili led the “Maniac Murder Cult,” which is “a worldwide racially inspired violent extremist group.” The group follows a “Neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence versus racial minorities, the Jewish neighborhood, and other groups it considers ‘undesirables,'” according to the Department of Justice.
” Members share a typical objective of challenging social order and federal governments through terrorism and violent acts that promote worry and mayhem,” district attorneys state.
Chkhikvishvili pleaded innocent throughout his look in federal court in Brooklyn on Friday.
As the group’s supposed leader, Chkhikvishvili is implicated of preparation and obtaining a mass casualty attack in New york city.
The plan presumably included somebody dressing up as Santa Claus and distributing sweet laced with toxin to members of the Jewish neighborhood, especially kids in Brooklyn who went to Jewish schools.
The 21-year-old is likewise implicated of stating he desired the attack to be “larger action than Breivik,” describing Anders Behring Breivik, a Norwegian neo‑Nazi who dedicated a battle and mass shooting in Norway in 2011. He eliminated 77 individuals.
District attorneys state Chkhikvishvili confessed to other criminal offenses, informing individuals he was “delighted I have actually killed” which he would “murder more” however “make others murder initially.”
Chkhikvishvili is implicated of preparing “detailed directions to perform the plan” and sharing” detailed handbooks about developing and blending deadly toxins and gases” with the individual he wished to perform the plan.
A few of these products are connected to foreign terrorist companies, consisting of ISIS, district attorneys state.
Given that 2021, Chkhikvishvili has actually been dispersing a “manifesto” called the “Hater’s Handbook” which “motivates individuals to devote acts of mass violence,” according to the Justice Department.
New York City City Authorities Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch applauded efforts to catch the 21-year-old.
” This offender presumably prepared to toxin Jewish kids and perform mass murder in New york city City,” Tisch stated. “He prompted battles, arsons, and violence versus racial and spiritual minorities– driven by a despiteful neo-Nazi ideology. These weren’t idle risks. They were detailed strategies.”