Capitol Riot Suspect Evan Neumann Claims Asylum in Belarus After Fleeing FBI

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Source: the beast



MOST WANTED Philippe Naughton
Published Nov. 08, 2021 7:11AM ET


A California man who is on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for allegedly attacking police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has claimed asylum in the former Soviet republic of Belarus. Evan Neumann, 48, was charged in July on six separate counts, including assaulting officers and violent entry, after being identified from footage of the storming of Congress. But by then he had already sold his house in the Bay Area and fled to Europe, initially hiding out in Ukraine before deciding to cross over into Belarus—often described as “Europe’s last dictatorship.”

His hosts appear delighted to have him. Belarus state TV portrayed him as a victim of government persecution and described him as “the same type of simple American whose shops were burned by Black Lives Matter activists.” In an interview with the channel, reported by the Moscow Times, Neumann said he had decided to leave Ukraine after finding himself being tailed by security officials. He told how he encountered wild boar and snakes as he made his way across the swampy marshland dividing Ukraine and Belarus, before being arrested on the border on Aug. 15. He said that the charges against him were “unfounded.”

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Sooner or later, Lady Justice will hand out her justice to him. yes, she will.

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[Walleye]

1. Good riddance traitor! Never come back. You will not be missed here

[Fla Dem]

27. +1,000

[Rebl2]

42. Better yet

Never let him back into USA, Canada, or Mexico.

[Walleye]

43. Right. He's a terrorist put them on a no-fly list

[in2herbs]

2. Can we try him in abstentia and seize his assets? He's got to have $$ from the sale of his house.

[HariSeldon]

38. No, but the statute of limitations does not toll...

...while he is out of the country. So he can't ever cone back to the US without facing charges (unless the Orange One is re-elected).

[COL Mustard]

73. Are You Sure About That?

I'm not a lawyer and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express, so I'm just wanting to be sure!

[dalton99a]

3. "Death to America!"

[Bluethroughu]

23. If this is not proof of treason by all that organized 1/6...

Then what is?

[ShazzieB]

59. He looks SO disgustingly smug and pleased with himself.

[kiri]

71. wait til he tries to replenish his guns and ammo

ain't no 2nd amendment rights in Belarus.

Remember when Lukashenko forbade people from laughing out on the street because he said they were laughing at him?

BYW, "byelo" is Russian for "white". Belarus is "white russia". It is not necessarily a racist term, but it is ironic.

[COL Mustard]

72. And A Darn Good Drink If Made Well

Too bad there isn't a drunk smilie. I could use one of those some days.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Belarus is known as Europe's last dictatorship

Enjoy not having any rights there, pal.

[ShazzieB]

56. Well, he wanted to live under an authoritarian dictator.

So he ought to feel right at home in Belarus.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[marble falls]

5. Being trapped in Belarus might be it's own little hell when he realizes he's only a chip.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

10. +1

[PatSeg]

19. He may end up wishing

he had stayed in the U.S. Serving some time in an American prison is bound to look more appealing than being stuck in Belarus indefinitely. He may be getting exactly what he deserves and now he is Belarus's problem.

[Captain Zero]

89. Now he has to learn to speak Belarusian...

Wonder if he thought about that ?

[PatSeg]

90. Oh yes, I thought of that as well!

It wouldn't bother me at all if he stayed there forever. Now he is someone else's problem and he won't cost taxpayers the expense of trying and incarcerating him.

[mountain grammy]

32. Yeah, like to see him storm the capitol in Belarus..

don't think he'd be walking away.. and his last words will be "hang Mike Pence"

[orangecrush]

41. THIS

[BlueIdaho]

47. Boy is he in for a shock!

From California to Belarus? Good luck comrade.

[Auggie]

77. Bet he comes back to the U.S.

[rpannier]

85. They'll fawn over hime for a while. He'll get all sorts of perks

Then the government will bore of him and look for their newest thing to hold as proof of Belarus' 'greatness'
He'll have next-to-nothing and be a nobody

[marble falls]

87. Then it's basically atate welfare. He'll try to sneak home.

[irisblue]

6. Gee, who could imagine a 6 Jan insurrectionist running?

🤦‍♀️

[lagomorph777]

45. So maybe it WASN'T a great idea to let all the terrorists out on bail?

Who'd have thought?

[ShazzieB]

58. Well, they didn't let ALL of them out.

They've kept certain ones behind bars because they were judged to be flight risks. I guess this ass🤡 slipped under their radar somehow.

[Gore1FL]

63. I don't know. We don't have to pay for his imprisonment and he lost everything he owned.

Justice is served on the cheap.

[msfiddlestix]

49. right? wonder how many others not yet charged have been able to board a flight to a police state?

and geeze... talk about ignorant as hell. unless of course, he wasn't really a "California Man" but a fucking 'sleeper agent'

it's possible.

[lagomorph777]

60. Or charged, then sent off to a Cancun vacation?

[marble falls]

81. All things are possible, his 'sleeping' is definitly a good possibility. I have to believe ...

... that Russian Intelligence had a presence there monitoring if not an active hand.

[Haggard Celine]

7. He loves Trump, so he should be happy

living in a dictatorship. After all, he was in the Capitol trying to overturn the election and install Trump instead of the man who was elected. He wanted to make this a dictatorship, apparently.

[Maeve]

8. "simple American"?????

[csziggy]

53. They left out a word - "simple minded American" nt

[AJT]

9. Freeze his bank accounts and seize his assets.

Of course his a trumpie so he probably doesn't have anything worth seizing.

[msfiddlestix]

51. don't make that assumption that he doesn't have anything worth seizing.

it would be interesting to dig into moneyed influencers bankrolling Jan 6, who we haven't yet learned of.

[IronLionZion]

11. Such a patriot

Don't come back

[Danascot]

12. Maybe if they had arrested him sooner...

After all the FBI has only had 10 months to arrest him.

[Hortensis]

92. You want him? Instead of serving a few months in jail

and putting this behind him, if he's like most who chose this path he's going to be trying to negotiate a deal come back. For years I hope, though he might give up and return.

Most who flee to Russia and associated states aren't happy with their choice and want to leave, even those who've been helped to decent jobs, living conditions, etc. And every other country that might meet his standards would just extradite him here.

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

13. A Trump Nazi's Dream. Amnesty International: Belarus 2020

The year was characterized by recurrent peaceful protests, with the presidential election in August serving as a catalyst for the most egregious crackdown on freedoms of expression, peaceful assembly and association in Belarus’ post-independence history. Opposition candidates, their campaign teams and associates were arrested on false charges or forcibly exiled. Police used excessive and indiscriminate force to disperse demonstrations. Tens of thousands of peaceful protesters and bystanders were detained, and many of them tortured or otherwise ill-treated. Journalists, medics, students, union leaders and others were also targeted with arrest, beatings and prosecution. The government’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic was inadequate. Death sentences continued to be imposed.

A worsening economic outlook, poor handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous incendiary comments by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka, amongst other issues, saw his popularity drop dramatically. In the run-up to the presidential election on 9 August, he made misogynistic pronouncements in statements broadcast on prime time television while arbitrary arrests, politically motivated prosecutions and other reprisals escalated against opposition candidates and their supporters, political and civil society activists, and independent media. An opposition coalition around presidential candidate Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya led women to the forefront of a burgeoning protest movement which spread across the country and society. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka claimed a landslide victory, although the result was strongly disputed by Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya and regarded as fraudulent by numerous independent election monitors. The OSCE, which was prevented from observing the elections, noted credible reports of widespread irregularities and serious administrative misconduct. Protests against the conduct of the election and the results quickly engulfed Belarus and were overwhelmingly peaceful despite a brutal crackdown by the authorities. Individuals regarded as protest opinion leaders were swiftly arrested or forcibly exiled. Relations with much of the international community deteriorated drastically and targeted sanctions were introduced against scores of Belarusian officials implicated in electoral and human rights violations. Russia expressed its support for the Belarusian authorities, providing financial assistance.
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The media remained under tight government control. Independent journalists and media organizations were harassed and prevented from carrying out their legitimate work. Local monitors documented over 400 such instances, including arrests, torture and other ill-treatment of media workers, between May and October alone. International media outlets had their accreditation denied or revoked to prevent uncensored reporting. Domestic newspapers, such as Komsomolskaya Pravda in Belarus, faced refusals from state-controlled printing houses to print issues criticizing authorities. Major online news outlet TUT.by had its licence suspended by the authorities. Natallia Lyubneuskaya, a journalist working for the independent newspaper Nasha Niva, was one of at least three journalists shot at by police with rubber bullets, on 10 August. She required surgery and was hospitalized for 38 days. Several bloggers and journalists were targeted with politically motivated criminal prosecutions, including the co-author of a popular Telegram channel, Ihar Losik, arrested on 25 June on trumped-up charges pending trial
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Dissenting views that spread across all sectors of society were brutally and directly suppressed. Students, academics, athletes, religious and cultural figures and employees of state enterprises were expelled or sacked from their posts and many faced administrative and even criminal sanctions for speaking against the authorities, supporting peaceful protest, or taking part in strikes.

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https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/europe-and-central-asia/belarus/report-belarus/

The poster country for America's future if the GOP takes control of the US in 2024.

[Traildogbob]

14. Exactly

The actions of a patriotic tourist that stayed inside the lines in a capital visit. MurKKKa. And being welcomed and praised by Russian allies, says a lot. No Russian Collusion. Barr determined no Russian collision. THIS IS THE GQP!!!!!!!!!

[Angrybob2001]

15. Irony, thy name is...

so dude fled from one country crossing a state border (through wildlands) illegally because he feared violence and sought asylum. I feel like I've heard this story before.

[KS Toronado]

22. Welcome to DU!

Hope you just get angry at Fascist Rs.

[bluedigger]

16. Would they take the rest of them as well?

Seems like a win-win - The insurrectionists get their freedumb, and I don't have to pay for their trial and incarceration.

[keithbvadu2]

17. Fine! He can stay there in his paradise. Cancel his passport.

Fine! He can stay there in his paradise. Cancel his passport.

Ironic how he snuck across the border.

Maybe he supports a big, beautiful wall?

... and maximum snark!

[NurseJackie]

18. Oh, I'm sure he'll be very happy there!

Bye!

[Botany]

20. With the right diplomatic and financial pressures* Belarus will give up that little shit in no time.

He means nothing to them and once his money and or P.R. value is used up they will put his
ass on plane back to America where he might very well spend the rest of his life in prison for
the murder of a US Capitol Police Officer. Or he might just kill himself in some cold shack in
Belarus as "they" come for him.

* https://tradingeconomics.com/belarus/exports-by-country Belarus did $193,000,000
in exports to the US in 2019.

[packman]

21. Wonder if he'll storm their capitol in a few years

You can bet they'll be keeping an eye on him and his new acquaintances in Belarus. I give him two/three years before he is begging to return to the U.S.

[ChazInAz]

26. Precisely my thought.

They'll get tired of him, and when he pulls some new bone headed stunt, they won't give him the time to plan another getaway.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Save America by fleeing to dictatorship - puts the lie to MAGA's every action

[2Gingersnaps]

25. This story stinks to high heaven.

Did he really have property damage during a BLM protest? He was violently attacking the Capitol Police, and as always, "accuse others of that which you are guilty." Was he inciting violence for foreign interests? What an odd place to go when you love your "freeedumbs."

[Thomas Hurt]

28. After this tool's novelty wears off, the Belarus gov't is going to abandon him...

he soon find out he is living in a, what was the term, oh yes...a shithole country.

Hope he enjoys it.

[hurple]

29. And of course...

He snuck into the country illegally by crawling through a swamp.

Oh, the irony...

[KPN]

30. Let them all slink away to Belarus -- now that would

go a long way to making America better.

Make America Better — exile in Belarus traitors.

[Harker]

31. So, he loved America so much that he...

Oh. Okay.

His fifteen minutes of celebrity there might not even last that long.

[Jimbo S]

33. "America, love it or leave it!"

[IronLionZion]

50. I would encourage more of them to leave it

[Beastly Boy]

34. Oswald lasted two years there. I give this sucker six months.

Unless, of course, the Belarussian authorities, after squeezing the last drop of propaganda out of him, decide to never grant him asylum.

Either way, I would bet a seven dollar bill that he will recall encountering wild boar and snakes among his more pleasant experiences of the adventure.

[turbinetree]

35. Since he has now renounced his US citizenship...he should be come the poster boy

for all of the traitors that were at this capital insurrection and it really should tell the DOJ, to start implementing more than sixty day slap on the hands BS that are being handed down....lets say to what a whining realtor in Texas got....

[JI7]

36. He is from California ?

hope he enjoys the winter season in Belarus.

[Pepsidog]

37. Think they have room for Tucker and a bunch of other Republican traitors.

[orangecrush]

39. NOW WE KNOW WHO PAYS THEM

[lagomorph777]

61. Yup.

[not fooled]

40. He might be waiting for red don to get re-installed

then pardon him and give him a hero's welcome back to the U.S.




This same scenario applies to many MAGAt criminals...they think they just need to wait for red don to take over, and all their legal problems vanish.

[Aviation Pro]

44. Coward

Goodbye, citizenship.

[Chainfire]

46. He is gone, that is good enough for me.

He will most likely find that his new bed will be full of nettles.

[hadEnuf]

48. Good. It shows who and what these insurrectionist traitors really are.

This is very revealing.

[Baitball Blogger]

52. What a wonderful opportunity to give a MAGA a taste of their own medicine when

it comes to showing up at a border and asking for asylum.

[msfiddlestix]

54. Speculation: Perhaps he was actually a State Sponsored Sleeper Agent from Belarus.

It's possible. It would be of interest to dig into this one. Wonder if Daily Beast intends to investigate a little further.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

55. Enjoy those beautiful Belorussian beach sunsets, scumbag.

[Marcuse]

57. That's our exit strategy too!

[Jilly_in_VA]

62. I hope

he enjoys the political climate there. And that he's quick to learn the language. He might find it difficult when he wants to come home for a visit though......

[BobTheSubgenius]

64. Damned media-saturated brain!

I can't help it; every time I read his name or saw his picture, I kept hearing the annoyed (and annoying) tone of Seinfeld's voice saying "NEWMAN!"

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

65. Life in Belarus will be a LOT different than life in California.

What's the weather like? I wonder if he speaks the local language? Is there a Starbucks on every corner? Is he going to have any friends there that will listen to his complaints about The Big Steal?

They say, "You can't go home," and in this case that's probably true. He'll be arrested and charged the moment he sets foot on U.S. soil.

Anybody want to place a bet on how long he'll last in Belarus?

[Historic NY]

66. Revoke his passport and don't let him back.

[Alien Life Form]

68. Let him try the same shit over there

see what happens

They will treat him like royalty until his usefullness runs out..then he will be lower than dirt...One thing they hate is someone who is a traitor to his own country

Das Vidanya, MotherF**er!

[sinkingfeeling]

69. Hope he enjoys all his freedom there. I know he'll like living in a

dictatorship since that's what he wants for America. And let's see him storm the palace, protesting the next election there.

[dchill]

70. That seems real brave and patriotic to me!

Way to stick to your guns!

[sdfernando]

74. Given recent events

I would say that after a time, and after his propaganda usefulness is over, he really should avoid windows in multi-story buildings...and perhaps not touch door knobs.

[bucolic_frolic]

75. Matt Gaetz breathes a sigh of relief?

There is a way out!

[frazzled]

76. Wild boar and snakes? Nice touch

Did he wear the de rigeur Indiana Jones hat?

[littlemissmartypants]

86. Or an old phone cord and a discarded Miss Piggy puppet in the garbage he had to wallow through. nt

[Cryptoad]

79. Why are all these Thugs not on a "NO Fly " list?

[Demguy81]

80. Disregard California, acquire Belarus?

Really? That's a fate worse than prison.

[Cha]

82. 1 less Asshole Fascist Voter

[MustLoveBeagles]

83. Bye traitor

[Quanto Magnus]

84. If the charges were unfounded

why is he running away like a criminal?

[SunSeeker]

88. Like the traitor he is.

Rot in Belarus, scumbag.

[The Jungle 1]

91. Cowards run!