Nine people suspected of having connections with the accused in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack have been detained.
Nine people have been detained in Tajikistan in connection with an attack on a concert hall near Moscow on March 22. Asia-Plus reports this with reference to sources in the country’s security agencies.
The detainees are suspected of having connections with those accused of the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall and having connections with the Afghan cell of the Islamic State group – Vilayat Khorasan.
All nine suspects were detained in the city of Vakhdat and brought to Dushanbe by employees of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan. According to some reports, security forces from Russia also participated in the arrest.
Tajik security forces and Russian investigators have previously interrogated relatives of those accused of the Crocus terrorist attack.
We remind you that the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall near Moscow happened on March 22. At least 144 people became its victims. The attackers shot some of the people, most died in the fire. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack.
The head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reported to President Vladimir Putin about the detention of 11 people. Among them, four terrorists who directly participated in the terrorist attack were natives of Tajikistan. The court sent them to a pre-trial detention center.
In addition, the court arrested four other accused in the case: the former owner of the car in which the terrorists arrived at the scene, his brother and their father, as well as a native of Kyrgyzstan who rented an apartment in participants in the terrorist attack.
Source: korrespondent
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