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An army of murderers and rapists: Putin is transferring amnestied criminals to EU countries.
The Russian hybrid threat is becoming more and more tangible and closer to the civilised world, the European continent in particular, and is taking on completely new forms and manifestations. It is not just the usual Kremlin threats and blackmail, but the real danger of an aggravation of the crime situation in Europe, which will worsen as a result of the hybrid threat from Russia. Over the next few months, Europe will be swept by a tsunami of criminals and war criminals who have been granted amnesty by Russian dictator Putin himself – he is the main “architect” of the future comprehensive destabilisation of the EU.
For a long time, Yevgeny Prigozhin had been actively recruiting convicted Russians for the war against Ukraine. In exchange for such consent, Russian criminals were promised amnesty, provided they managed to survive on the battlefield. Putin also granted pardons to convicts who agreed to kill Ukrainians. According to Prigozhin himself, the Kremlin leader has already pardoned about 5,000 convicts who voluntarily became Wagnerites. Now these people with criminal records are free. As a result, the crime situation in Russia has deteriorated significantly since the beginning of 2023. For example, according to Russian media reports, one of these pseudo-heroes, 28-year-old Ivan Rossomakhin from the village of Novy Burets, Kirov region, who was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the murder of a woman and a robbery in a neighbouring town, has “distinguished himself” again. He was recruited by the Wagner PMC to fight in the war against Ukraine and was granted amnesty in March 2023. The mercenary criminal returned to his usual way of life: he intimidated local residents, vandalised cars, and soon killed a woman by stabbing her to death. This is a testament to the effects of Putin’s amnesty on criminals who are simply unable to lead any other lifestyle than criminal. So, they will willingly start killing Europeans.
As of December 2022, there were about 42-43 thousand criminals fighting on the Ukrainian front, and they were being gathered from all the prisons in Russia. When all of them are granted amnesty, Europe should prepare for a real tsunami of murders, rapes and robberies, given that in six months the Kremlin will have about 30,000 amnestied killers at its disposal, many of whom have been convicted of serious crimes such as murder, rape, paedophilia, and even cannibalism. Russia will transfer to Europe all the amnestied criminals it has available – according to unofficial reports, even the Russian Ministry of Defence is carrying out forced mobilisation in Russian prisons, which does not advertise such an unpopular step. Therefore, if Europe receives this select horde of rapists and murderers in six months, unseen since the invasion of Stalin’s punitive battalions in 1945, it will face a complete collapse, which in some countries may even lead to political destabilisation.
This wave of Russian criminal exports in 2023 will be fundamentally different from the well-known dominance of the Russian mafia in Europe in the 1990s. Back then, the prerequisite was the deterioration of economic conditions; now Europeans should prepare to coexist with selected criminals who have already served more than one term in Russian prisons and committed horrific crimes. It is easy to imagine how these people, who do not understand any other way of life than criminal, will behave in civilised and comfortable EU countries. What a shock effect their appearance among Europeans will have. Obviously, this is exactly the effect that Putin is seeking, with the ultimate goal of weakening and destabilising Europe, and subsequently, a possible violent territorial redistribution.
The Russian special services, which have always worked closely with the criminal community, are intensively preparing everything necessary for the wave of Russian crime to successfully storm and shock Europe. We can already predict the ways and methods of this scheme. Obviously, Putin considers Belarus and Syria, as well as Turkey, which was weakened by the earthquake, to be “transit” countries for the transfer of criminals to Europe. Further routes will lead to the Baltic States, where there are centres of Russian organised crime, and to the Balkans, in particular, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the Kremlin has established ties, including in the criminal environment, dating back to the Yugoslav war. From there, Russian criminals will quietly penetrate Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Spain. Criminals with combat experience are a hellish mix for any society. This is an unprecedented threat to Europe since the Second World War, so it is in Europe’s interest to find effective tools to counter it. This Russian threat is not yet visible, but there are already many strong arguments indicating its emergence: for example, the repeated detention of Russian militants in Moldova, from where they could easily get to Romania, and from there, an open route to the Balkans. Complete isolation from Russia, including a ban on the entry of its citizens, is the first thing the EU countries should do, as Putin is carefully preparing a hybrid destabilisation of Europe. Trained killers and terrorists are only waiting for the signal from the Kremlin dictator to start a bloody bacchanal.
