Dimitri Bogitch
Photo: Ofer Amram
Bogitch's gang member
Photo courtesy of the police
Neo-Nazi gang leader indicted
Dimitri Bogitch, 24, who headed Petah Tikva gang arrested at beginning of year after fleeing Israel in 2007; charged with aggravated assault, possession of racist publications
Twenty four-year-old Dimitri Bogitch, who was one of the leaders of a neo-Nazi gang active in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv, was indicted Sunday – three years after fleeing Israel.
Bogtich was arrested at the beginning of the month and charged Sunday morning by the Central District Prosecution on eight accounts of racially motivated aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit a crime, public hostility, incitement to racism, possession of racist publications and more.
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Raanan Ben-Zur
Petach Tikva man suspected of leading violent racist group arrested at airport after fleeing Israel in 2007
After fleeing Israel in 2007, an international arrest warrant was issued against Bogitch, who according to estimates escaped to Russia, and was later deported to Kirgizstan, which extradited him to Israel.
Wasn't able to evade justice. Bogitch in court (Photo: Ofer Amram)
The other gang members were arrested by the police, which found in their possession different neo-Nazi paraphernalia. Some of the suspects even had tattoos of slogans and symbols associated with the Third Reich.
According to the prosecution, the gang members would document their assaults and maintained contact with other neo-Nazi cells operating across the world.
Aside from Bogitch, who was considered the gang leader, all eight members were convicted and are currently serving their prison sentences.
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