St. Petersburg Yabloko honored the memory of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, killed by neo-Nazis 19 years ago
Press Release, 13.11.2024
Photo: Olga Tsepilova, Ivan Levchenko and Dmitry Anisimov on Ligovsky Prospekt, 12 November, 2024. / Photo by the Press Service of the St. Petersburg branch of Yabloko
On November 12, on the eve of the anniversary of the murder of St. Petersburg anti-fascist Timur Kacharava, the Chair of St. Petersburg Yabloko Olga Tsepilova, Deputy Chair of St.Petersburg Yabloko Dmitry Anisimov, and member of the Regional Council Ivan Levchenko brought flowers and a photograph of the activist to the site of his murder near the Bukvoed bookstore on Ligovsky Prospekt.
“We deeply commiserate with Timur’s loved ones and mourn the loss of a decent person and citizen. We believe and hope that the values of humanism, non-violence and freedom that he believed in and fought for will one day become dominant in our city and country,” Olga Tsepilova noted.
On 13 November, 2005, a neo-Nazi gang brutally murdered 20-year-old anti-fascist Timur Kacharava. He received six stab wounds to the neck and died on the spot.
In 2020, Yabloko Chairman Nikolai Rybakov approached the Bukvoed bookstore managers with a proposal to install a memorial sign at the site of Timur Kacharava’s murder, however, the representatives of the bookstore refused, citing formalities.
Posted: November 13th, 2024 under Human Rights, YABLOKO Against Nationalism, Extremism and Xenophobia, Yabloko's Regional Branches, Без рубрики.