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Claudino G. Petruccelli when DLJ showed up.
Any time you try to sneak around to do anything, it only takes catching you to ruining everything.
The neo-Nazi organization in New Jersey run by a Uber Eats worker name Claudino G. Petruccelli, who is known for getting caught flat footed in his Nazi capers, could only get ten people to protest outside One People’s Project on Saturday night. But, that was not their only fail. Their plan to meet up at a diner in the next town over was learned about by antifascists, including One People’s Project Executive Director Daryle Lamont Jenkins, and when they were confronted by antifascists at the diner, left without even paying their tab according to workers.
Petruccelli, who grew up in a affluent community whose family owns a construction company. In recent years was the one-time leader of the New Jersey chapter of White Lives Matters, but after arrests, including his own in 2021, another group was created out of the ashes call the Atlantic Nationalist Club (AnaC).
AnaC’s original plan was to protest a church that Petruccelli believed connected to One People’s Project. Most of the ten who joined the protest came from other states. Two came from Pennsylvania, including Quintynn Stark from Lancaster, who has dreams of being a professional skateboarder. He removed his Instagram page then simply made it private, but he is still see on the his sponsors PAIN! Skateboards’ page. He reportedly told his parents he was going to drive to a concert in York, Penn., and they didn’t know he was going to New Jersey to participate in a Neo-Nazi rally. A group was from Staten Island and four came from Connecticut. Only three were from New Jersey, Petruccelli and two others.
The Nazis gathered at the Edison Diner to wait for the Connecticut group to join. When antifascists arrived at the diner, Petruccelli grabbed an empty beer bottle and made threatening remarks to Jenkins and others. Within five minutes of antifascists’ arrival, the Nazis quickly left.
Antifascists waited for them to resurface until they learned that the AnaC members had retreated to a safe space. Petruccelli threw a temper tantrum and demanded to see everyone’s phone to see who had revealed their meetup location. It was almost 11 p.m. when they came to the One People’s Project office and by this time everyone was leaving. Jenkins ridiculed the group and the Nazis chanted for five minutes before leaving with the police following them as they walked to nearby Boyd Park where they have staged many photo ops.
No one was hurt or arrested Saturday night, and AnaC’s actions reflected a fad among hate groups in recent years—having flashmob style rallies to avoid having anyone opposing them. Trying to be clandestine hasn’t always worked for Petruccelli’s and other groups in New Jersey.
Petruccelli first met Jenkins in November 2021 in Princeton, New Jersey, when Petruccelli attempted to affix a White Live Matter sticker in one of the city’s busiest areas and was chased off. Two weeks later, Petruccelli was arrested along with two others when they again tried to post White Lives Matters stickers on sign posts in Somerville, NJ.
One of the two left soon after and reportedly joined another Nazi group called Blood Tribe. The other one, Steve V. Koshlyak is currently being held on charges that have not been made public since his arrest in July, just a few days after Andrew Takhistov was arrested on charges he was part of a plot to destroy a New Jersey energy facility. Takhistov is also an associate of Petruccelli. His friend Nick Mucci is also in jail for trying to attack a benefit show for One People’s Project in Asbury Park, N.J. He was sentenced in September to eight years after pleading out over the summer.
