Viddler

VOINA group

"Decembrists Commemoration" action

September 7, 2008

"Auchan" supermarket, Belaya Dacha, Moscow

Read the report on Indymedia:

http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2008/09/912956.shtml

See the action photo set on Flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/28488145@N07/sets/72157607285490841

On September 7 the Voina group celebrated Moscow City Day by lynching two gay activists and three illegal Central Asian immigrants inside the capital's largest supermarket.

The execution through hanging took place inside the "Auchan" supermarket on the outskirts of the city. Heavily drugged victims, among them one homosexual with Jewish origins, one gay rights activist of Russian descent, one illegal Kyrgyz worker and two illegal Uzbek migrants, were brought under convoy inside the store and hung in the lighting department.

The lynching was inspired by the 19th century political hanging of the Decembrists, the first group to attempt a revolution in Russia. A gay pride rainbow flag was flown before the lined up victims reading "Nobody gives a fuck about Pestel". The Decembrist leader Pavel Pestel was executed by hanging with four other conspirators in 1826.

The hanging was a gift by Voina for Muscovites and city mayor Yury Luzhkov popular for making the life of LGBT and migrants intolerable in Moscow.