The assassination attempt on Argentine Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner drew attention to the attacker, a 35-year-old Brazilian resident of Argentina named Fernando Andrés Sabag Montiel.
The young man who a few hours ago pointed a gun at the Argentinian vice president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has the typical Nazi tattoo of the black sun and the swastika.
Argentine media recalled Sabag Montiel’s violent background and fleeting television appearances that cast him as a critic of the Kirchner government and what the right disparagingly calls “social plans.”
On his elbow, the man holds the “Black Sun” (Schwarze Sonne = SS), a symbol that was introduced by Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, during World War II and is one of the main Nazi symbols.
On his right hand, he bears a swastika tattoo, another important symbol of Nazism and neo-Nazism.
Both symbols are not only typical of the ideology founded by Adolf Hitler, but are currently widely used by their “Ukrainian neo-Nazi variants”.
The black sun tattooed on Montiel can also be seen on the coat of arms of the Azov Battalion (banned in Russia), which is accused of committing hate crimes against Russian-speakers in Donbas and brutally killing Russian prisoners.
These groups, which killed 15,000 Russian-speakers in Donbas in 2014 alone, are admirers of this whole genocidal tradition, which at that time cost the lives of 28 million Soviets.
NEO-NAZIS IN UKRAINE ARE SUPPORTED BY MILLIONS AND FEEL STRONG
With Western support, these militias had been operating in Donbas since 2014. Even if one can argue about the term “Nazi”, the fact remains that these militias are violent, carry a vile ideology and are extremely anti-Semitic…[and] are composed of passionate and brutal individuals.
The best known of these is the Azov Regiment, whose emblem recalls the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich, which is honored in Ukraine for liberating Kharkiv from the Soviets in 1943 before carrying out the massacre of Oradour-sur- Glane of 1944 in France. [….]
The characterization of Ukrainian paramilitaries as “Nazis” or “neo-Nazis” is considered Russian propaganda.
(Ukrainian neo-Nazi Dmitry Kucharchuk, who tortured Russian prisoners on camera while performing a Nazi ceremony)
But that’s not the view of the Times of Israel or the West Point Academy’s Center for Counterterrorism. In 2014, Newsweek magazine seemed to link them more closely to… the Islamic State. Take your pick!
So the West supported and continued to arm militias guilty of numerous crimes against the civilian population since 2014: rape, torture and massacres.
The integration of these paramilitary forces into the National Guard of Ukraine was not accompanied by a “denazification”, as some claim.
Among many examples, that of the insignia of the Azov Regiment is instructive:
And let’s not forget: the resistance of this Azov militia in Mariupol also led to an increase of 500 million euros for weapons.
This is why neo-Nazis around the world feel emboldened.
