Leaders of Eastern European neo-Nazi groups were handed over to the US from Moldova after being arrested last summer, after being told undercover agents to take Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candies to Jewish children and racist minorities.
Michel Chuchykwyswyli, 21, from Georgia, was arrested before a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday on multiple felony charges, including hate crimes and solicitation of massive violent acts.
He pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Samuel Gregory. Samuel Gregory requested that his client be subjected to a psychiatric evaluation and be placed on suicide surveillance while in custody.
The prosecutor described chkhikvishvili, who also serves as “commanders” as the leader of a murder cult of mania, an international extremist group that adheres to neo-Nazi acceleratorist ideology and promotes violence and acts of violence against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups.
They said the group’s violent solicitation, promoted through the Telegram channel and outlined the manifesto called “hater’s handbook,” appears to have affected multiple real-life killings, including a school shooting in Nashville earlier this year, when the 16-year-old student died.
Since 2022, Chkhikvishvili has traveled to Brooklyn on multiple occasions, where he boasted of beating older Jewish men, directing others primarily through text messages, and primarily through text messages to commit acts of violence on behalf of the maniac murder cult.
According to the Justice Department, when he was approached by a secret FBI agent in 2023, Chkhikvishvili recruited staff for a scheme that “supposes as Santa Claus and candies that depict poisonous candies for racial minorities and children.”
He later suggested focusing on “dead Jewish children” after saying that “there are literally everywhere” in Brooklyn.
Chkhikvishvili explained his desire to carry out a massive victim attack, deeming the US “great possibilities due to the availability of firearms” and added that undercover investigators should consider targeting homeless people as they don’t care if the government “dead.”
He was arrested in Moldova last July and was taken into custody before extradition this week.
In a statement, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the incident “is a reminder of the kind of terrorism we face today: an online network that is plotting unspeakable violence against children, families and the Jewish community in pursuit of the ideology of children, families and the extremists that have fallen.”
