Pro-Kremlin activists reportedly trash the Nemtsov memorial (again), this time destroying the wreath left by John Bolton

Members of the pro-Kremlin SERB movement reportedly destroyed the Boris Nemtsov memorial at the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge in Moscow, maintained at the site of the politician's murder in 2015. According to the website MBKh Media, the group showed up on October 30, led by Igor Beketov, and proceeded to tear apart and trash the wreaths and portraits left to commemorate the assassinated deputy prime minister.

The men reportedly vandalized and then removed the wreath left recently by U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton, as well. (Bolton visited the bridge on October 23 and left a wreath with a note reading, “From the American people.”)

When the activist guarding the memorial asked nearby police officers for help, he was allegedly threatened with being “sent to the loony bin.” Beketov later told the magazine RBC that his organization had nothing to do with the latest destruction of the Nemtsov memorial, which has been attacked and rebuilt repeatedly over the past three and a half years. On YouTube, for instance, there's footage of SERB members trashing the Nemtsov bridge memorial on September 8, 2018.