This Monday, April 1, the Russian security services affirmed that the individuals arrested on Sunday in Dagestan are involved in the attack which hit the Crocus City Hall on March 22 near Moscow.
Arrested on Sunday in Dagestan, the people accused of preparing an attack are linked to the perpetrators of the attack on Crocus City Hall which occurred ten days ago near Moscow. This is what the Russian security services (FSB) said this Monday, April 1, which reported four people arrested while the Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAK) counted three.
These individuals were intercepted in Makhachkala and Kaspiïsk, in the Russian Caucasus, in possession of an improvised explosive device and automatic weapons, according to the FSB. This same source indicated on Monday that the suspects were “preparing a terrorist act in public places in Kaspiysk”.
These people are “directly involved in financing and providing terrorist means to the perpetrators of the attack committed on March 22, 2024,” continued the Russian security services, referring to the recent attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Crocus City Hall, which left at least 144 dead.
Twelve people arrested
This attack was claimed by Daesh but the Russian authorities persist in seeing a Ukrainian lead. A total of twelve people have been arrested as part of the investigation into the Crocus City Hall attack. Among these are the four suspected attackers, originally from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia where Daesh is active.
This Monday, a tenth suspect among these 12 people arrested was placed in pre-trial detention. This is Iakoubdjoni Ioussoufzody, who is accused of “terrorism” and of having “transferred money to an accomplice” a few days before the attack in order to “ensure the accommodation of terrorists”.
Before that, on Friday evening, the Russian security services had also announced the arrest of three “nationals of a Central Asian country”, also suspected of having planned “a bomb attack”, this time – here in the southwest of Russia.