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“Very sensitive risk situation”: Security authorities alarmed: On May 9, Putin’s “night wolves” roam through Berlin
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Berlin’s police are preparing for two problematic demonstration days: On May 8th and 9th, around 50 meetings are registered to commemorate the end of World War II and the Russian victory over Hitler’s Germany. The police confirmed to FOCUS Online that the motorcycle rocker gang “Night Wolves”, which is loyal to Putin, is also planning to participate.
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The smoke from the demo on May 1st in Kreuzberg has just cleared when the federal capital is threatened with new demo stress. Dozens of events have already been registered for Sunday and Monday, May 8th and 9th. Topics include commemorating the end of World War II on May 8, 1945, the victory over fascism and honoring fallen Soviet soldiers.
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While the commemorations otherwise attract many people to the federal capital every year and usually go off without a hitch, the events this year are under an unfavorable star. Police fear that several pro-Russian groups and participants may use one or the other event to show their support for Putin’s war of aggression in Ukraine.
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“Very sensitive risk situation”: Largest demo with 1300 participants
Especially because of a “very sensitive risk situation” the security authorities have two events in mind. The first was scheduled for Monday, May 9, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Soviet War Memorial in Tiergarten. The gathering was registered by an individual and has the motto “Red Army Memorial – Elevator to commemorate the fallen Soviet soldiers during World War II.” With 1300 registered participants, it is the largest planned event of the two days so far.
The second event, which the police classify as potentially problematic, takes place immediately afterwards at the same location. Here, too, the applicant is an individual, for whom the police, in contrast to clubs or organizations, do not provide any information on their identity. However, the security authorities have information that members of the motorcycle rocker group “Nachtwolves” will take part in this event with 150 participants, officially declared as “honoring the victims of war”, and are planning a “wreath-laying ceremony”. The applicant himself is said to be associated with the “Night Wolves”.
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Rocker gang boss Vladimir Putin’s personal buddy
The members of this Russian rocker gang not only burn for hot stoves, but also for ultra-nationalist views. Your boss, Alexander Zaldostanov, born in Kirovohrad in the Ukraine in 1963, has direct contacts with the Kremlin warmonger Vladimir Putin. There are photos of several encounters that show Putin and Zaldostanov side by side like old buddies at meetings of the rocker gang. “Such manly and cool guys are role models for young people in our country and show them how to deal with Russia,” Putin said at one of the meetings.
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The 59-year-old Zaldostanov founded the gang, which has around 5,000 members, in Moscow shortly before the collapse of the Soviet Union. According to
„taz“
the “surgeon” moved to West Berlin in 1985, where he married a West German journalist whom he had met in Moscow. In Berlin he worked as a bouncer in a Schöneberg club.
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Night Wolves boss reveres dictator Stalin as ‘unsurpassed leader’
Saldostanov reveres the Russian dictator Stalin as an “unsurpassed leader”, as he revealed in an interview with the “Rheinische Post” in 2015. On the other hand, he compared the West to Satan. The rocker gang is also considered homophobic and Christian-Orthodox. The gang demonstratively sided with Putin during the Crimean crisis and supported pro-Russian demonstrations in eastern Ukrainian cities like Luhansk and Kharkiv. In addition, the “surgeon” founded the “Anti-Maidan” movement with Putin confidants, according to “taz”.
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Maidan stands geographically for the “Square of Independence” in Kyiv and politically for the protests of hundreds of thousands of Urkainer, who demonstrated peacefully there between November 2013 and February 2014 against the Russian aggression in Crimea. On February 18, there was an escalation between security forces and demonstrators, which cost the lives of more than 100 people.
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Display of Russian flags and symbols glorifying violence are prohibited
Pro-Russian and nationalist demonstrations have already caused quite a stir nationwide in the past few weeks. At the demonstrations, which at least officially were mostly against discrimination against Russian citizens in Germany, there were several motorcades decorated with Russian flags.
The police announced on Friday that the display of Russian and Ukrainian flags at the commemoration events on May 8 and 9 is prohibited in order to prevent the celebrations from being instrumentalized for nationalist purposes. In addition to wearing military uniforms and St. George’s ribbons (St. George’s ribbon, a Russian military insignia with three black and two orange stripes), it is forbidden to play songs intended to endorse or glorify the war in Ukraine.
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“Night Wolves” boss and Putin friend expresses dreams of power with Germany
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