photos posing Sergey K. in a camouflage suit, in the hands he is holding a Bazooka or a Kalashnikov. The German citizens should be traveled in a para-military training center, in which the participants were trained in “close combat” and “knife fight”. In addition, they took part in a shooting training, which usually also machine guns. This combat training is not, however, in an Islamic terrorist camp, but in Russia, and the man didn’t want to fight in Syria, but in the middle of Europe, in the East of Ukraine. The Moscow-born Sergei K., who later moved to Ingolstadt and took the German citizenship, was convicted in Munich on Thursday due to preparing a serious seditious act of violence to two years and three months in prison.

In the proceedings before the state security chamber of the Munich regional court it was not the participation of the husband in the war in the Ukraine. The judgment refers to the fact that Sergei K. “has left the Federal Republic with the aim of, in the Ukraine in war-like actions to participate in,” said judge Florian Gliwitzky, the spokesman of the court. The Condemned have had the intention “to lead an armed struggle against the Ukrainian state” and Pro-Russian interests in Eastern Ukraine to enforce. In the Donbass separatists and Russians fight in 2014 against the Ukrainian army.

How many Germans or people living in Germany have contributed in the war in the Ukraine, is unclear. By the end of 2017, the Federal government was aware of 26 people, who were in the years 2014 and 2015, at least temporarily, in the war zone, 20 of them should have supported the separatists.

Russian fellowship trained in “fight club Partisan”

The General Prosecutor’s office in Munich, Sergei had accused K. in August 2014, the “paramilitary training” in St. Petersburg to go through. In the process he was staying there, best ride, however, to have combat training and joined in. The “fight club Partisan” was organized by the “Imperial Legion”, a nationalist Russian companionship, which is deeply rooted in Russian Orthodoxy. The “Imperial Legion” trained Volunteers as Sergei K. and then sent them to Fight in the Donbass. Several of them were apparently killed. In the self-description of the fellowship, it means you defend “the interests of the Russian people on all fronts”.

Sergei K. was more than two decades, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, but later temporarily Islam. After his time as a priest, he was in several Occupations, including in the security service at the Munich airport. He later returned to the Orthodox Faith and wanted to be on the Greek mount Athos consecrate. However, in may of 2018, a European arrest had already been warrant against him issued in June, he was arrested in Bulgaria and later extradited to Germany, where he is since then behind bars.

uncle of the Convicted person is regarded as a Propagandist of the Kremlin

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Known the case was a relative of the accused: His uncle Dmitry Kiselyov, General Director of the state Russian media group “Russia Sewodnja” and is considered to be one of the greatest propagandists of the Kremlin. In the EU, he has a ban that is why since the beginning of the Ukraine-war entry. He was also made in April 2016, the fact that his nephew fought as a Volunteer in the Donbass: “With his German passport he went there to fight.” In Horlivka, or in the vicinity of his nephew, of September, was until December 2014. “He was Deputy commander of the train.” Dmitry Kiselyov reported at the time, he had asked his nephew why he was there to. I answered: “I am Russian, I drove.”