He was convicted back in September of brutally attacking dozens of people because of their skin color or ethnic race over the years.
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"This is a unique bill of indictment," said one of the judges. "It includes a long line of grave violent acts against bystanders because of the color of their skins, they race or sexuality, and in the backdrop, the defendant and his group's obsession with the racial theory."
Dimitri Bogitch in court (Photo: Moti Kimchi)
Bogtich was arrested at the beginning of January and charged 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.
Between 2005 and 2007, Bogitch headed numerous acts of vandalism and assault against minority groups in Petah Tikva and Tel Aviv.
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.
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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