Russian neo-Nazi jailed for forcing prostitutes to march naked

A Russian court on Monday jailed a former martial arts champion and notorious neo-Nazi for three and a half years after he forced 12 prostitutes to walk naked through the streets of Saint Petersburg.

Vyacheslav Datsik broke into a small hotel that also functioned as a brothel in the centre of the northwestern city in May 2016 after declaring a “war on prostitutes”.

Acting with accomplices, he then forced 12 women and a man — allegedly a client — to follow him to a police station while still naked.Datsik told police that he “just wanted the women to march intheir work uniforms”.

He was found guilty of hooliganism, breaking into property and a “premeditated attack on the health of others”.Investigators also established that Datsik stole 50,000 rubles ($863, 700 euros at the currentrate) from a safe in the brothel and beat up three other women.

Datsik, a former kick-boxing and mixed martial arts (MMA) champion, was first arrested in 2010 after robbing several mobile phone stores.He was then placed in a psychiatric facility, from which he escaped and fled to Oslo in 2010, where he unsuccessfullyappealed for asylum while carrying a loaded gun.


He was promptly arrested.He was later photographed in an Oslo courtroom wearing a black T-shirt with a swastika and — despite wearing handcuffs — making an improvised form of Nazi salute.

Sentenced to eight months in prison in Norway for illegal possession of weapons, he was then extradited to Russia in 2011.