Russian gay activist Artem Kalinin does not have a home computer and as he walked to his local Computer Club in Syktyvkar, he was attacked for a second time by a group of neo-Nazis.
Kalinin describes seeing a suspicious young man of strong physique in his early twenties, as if waiting for someone. As Kalinin took his cell phone and called the police, the man approached.
Having been attacked previously Kalinin was particularly aware and moved quickly back toward his apartment, while the stranger followed.
Before he was able to open the door, he was hit on the head, and saw blood gushing. Translated from Russian and reported on the ASYLUM LGBT Site, “We began to fight, he began to hit an unknown object all over my body as I realized later, it was a stick with an iron knob. As always, the neighbours did not hear anything and did not see the floor of my porch was covered with splashes of blood.”
Kalinin was able to escape, “I ran towards the nearest shop, on Pechorsakya Street,” hoping to meet there the police or at least some more or less a living soul.” Kalinin fell and the assailant continued the beating, while shouting “You’re a fag, I always wanted to kill you! If you want, I’ll kill you, I don’t care… “.
According to Kalinin the assailant asserted that he had “a friend in police, who offered to help trace you down,: and further that he would not be arrested for the attack. The victim lay on the ground as the attacker repetitively kicked his body.
Passersby did not help. Pursuant to his earlier call, Police finally arrived and immediately took the side of the attacker as the assailant went on to explain that Kalinin was “fag,” and queried “Are fags not put in jail?”
Lying on the ground and covered in blood, Kalinin was unable to answer the questions to me, – younger officer asked if he should call an ambulance while the other asked Kalinin’s sexual orientation.
Kalinin was taken to neuro-traumatological department of Ezhvinsky area. The duty doctor examined me, stated the fracture of the nasal bridge, four wounds on my head and numerous bruises, contusions of the face.
After the hospital I went to the police department of Syktyvkar. In a taxi I called the police phone line “02″. I was interested in only one question: “Where at the moment is the attacker?” A duty officer simply stunned me: “We filed a protocol on the young man, and then he was released”.
Kalinin, now terrified that his life is in serious danger as the man knows where he lives, believing he is the target of a call to “kill Fags” by a neo Nazi group ”Rubezh Severa” openly calling to “crush faggots like shit”, on their website,
This incident is coinciding with the call by Russian LGBT activists such as Kalinin for a “Week Against Homophobia.”
“Even if it is not people from “Rubezh SeveraI would like to appeal to the authorities. How long will you tolerate in inciting violence against the LGBT community? “ says Kalinin in a plea to authorities.
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