Russian soldier auctions the knife used to cut off ISIS terrorist’s ear – and is flooded with bids
The Russian soldier who sliced off the ear of an ISIS terrorist suspected of carrying out the deadly Moscow massacre and made him eat it is auctioning off the knife he used.
Terror suspect Saidakrami Rachabalizoda was seen crying and screaming on the ground as Russian soldiers beat him with the butts of their guns in a clip shared to Telegram, while a later video showed an officer cutting off his right ear and force-feeding it to him.
The officer, who was previously seen sporting a neo-Nazi patch, has now put up the short, bloodied blade for auction.
Shared on the neo-Nazi-linked Telegram channel ‘TopaZ Says’, the ‘ear cut’ knife was put up for auction with no starting bid.
A picture of the short, bloodied knife appears to match the one used to slice off Rachabalizoda’s ear, in footage too gruesome for MailOnline to share.
The officer, who was previously seen sporting a neo-Nazi patch, has now put up the short, bloodied blade for auction
Terror suspect Saidakrami Rachabalizoda (Pictured) was forced to eat his own ear when he was caught by Russian security forces
The channel’s administrators said that they would only send ‘part of the funds to a charity account for victims of the terrorist attack’, referring to the deadly massacre in Moscow that left nearly 140 civilians dead.
Though it is not currently known whether the knife has been sold yet, the highest apparently sincere bid MailOnline could see was ten thousand rubles, equivalent to £85.
The knife is understood to be made and sold by Russia knife maker Kizlyar, is about six-and-a-half inches long in total, and is sold on its website to Europeans for €62 (£53).
The knife was used by an officer with apparent links to the far right, according to previous Telegram posts made on the same channel.
A photo shared to ‘TopaZ Says’ shows a Russian soldier holding the same knife.
A man sits in the defendant cage as he waits for his pre-trial detention hearing at the Basmanny District Court in Moscow
While the centre is obscured by a young man’s smiling face, the offshoots of the patch are still visible and indicate that this is a Black Sun patch
The knife can be seen next to a partially obscured gold-and-black patch. While the centre is obscured by a young man’s smiling face, the offshoots of the patch are still visible.
The patch appears to denote a variant of the Black Sun.
The Black Sun, according to the Anti-Defamation League, has been used by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as a symbol, after it was used in Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler’s brownshirts, the SS and the Nazi Party at large.
It was first used in a castle owned by Heinrich Himmler that was used as a central hub for the SS.
Vladimir Putin on Monday said that radical Islamists were the ones who had carried out the attack, but said that Russia still wanted to understand who had ordered it and said there were many questions for Ukraine to answer. Ukraine denies any involvement.
When asked if the assault represented an intelligence service failure, the Kremlin said that Russia’s standoff with the West meant intelligence-sharing was not happening in the way it used to.
‘Unfortunately, our world shows that no city, no country can be completely immune from the threat of terrorism,’ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Russia’s intelligence services worked tirelessly to defend the country, he added.
But whether the men were tasked by Islamic State as the militant group and the West asserts, or whether there may have been some kind of Ukrainian connection as Putin has hinted – and Kyiv has flatly denied – there were warning signs which were not heeded.
