Berlin police detain leader of Russian art group ‘Voina’ Oleg Vorotnikov and his son

Source: Voina

Oleg Vorotnikov, also known as Vor Voiny, the leader of the Russian art group “Voina,” has been detained in Berlin.

Vorotnikov was riding a bicycle on the grounds of the former Karl Bonhoeffer psychiatric clinic on the evening of October 5 when a car struck him, the art group said on social media. Police who arrived at the scene detained him.

Several hours earlier, police detained Vorotnikov’s son, Casper Sokol, 17, also known as Nenaglyadny, inside the Schöneberg district city hall building.

A judge ordered him held at the Tempelhof police detention facility in Berlin, Voina said on social media.

Natalia Sokol, the wife of Vor and the group’s coordinator, remains free along with the couple’s four daughters: Mama, Troitsa, Lyonya, and one-and-a-half-year-old Armia.

The reasons for the detentions have not been disclosed.

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