Brooklyn Jewish children were targeted by a man who wanted to use Santa in a poison scheme, prosecutors say.

The leader of a neo-Nazi extremist group based in eastern Europe has been charged with plotting to have an associate dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to Jewish children in New York City to sow terror, prosecutors said Tuesday.

Chkhikvishvili, who has various nicknames including Commander Butcher, allegedly leads the Maniac Murder Cult, which prosecutors said is an international extremist group that adheres to a “neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence and violent acts against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems ‘undesirables.’ "

  • Flying Squid
    47•1 month ago

    Now I know why my Jewish grandmother always kept me away from the Santas at Christmas.

  • AmidFuror
    45•1 month ago

    Ah, yes. Jewish kids are well known for taking candy from Santa. It’s an annual Hanukah tradition.

    • @[email protected]
      9•1 month ago

      He was planning to hand them out to brown kids too.

      Weird that that didn’t get mentioned in the headline, but I guess I read the article to figure out how that tracked so…

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 month ago

      That’s a Georgian name. What kind of idiot do you have to be to be a Slavic neo Nazi? Why did the other neo Nazis let him in their club? Do they not understand their own ideology?