Russia’s top security official announced on Monday that it had dismantled what it called a “terrorist organization” in southern Russia. Members of this organization provided weapons and cash to the suspects who attacked a concert hall in Moscow.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Sunday that it had detained four people believed to be members of a cell in Russia’s North Caucasus region of Dagestan.
The agency said suspects detained in Dagestan attacked an armed group that attacked a concert hall in western Moscow on March 22, killing 144 people in the deadliest attack on mainland Russia in 20 years. He claimed that he was involved in financing and arms supply.
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“The detained militants were directly involved in financing and providing terrorist means to the perpetrators of the attack on Moscow’s Crocus City Hall on March 22,” the FSB said in a statement.
Ambassadors attend the enshrining ceremony at a temporary monument in front of Crocus City Hall in Moscow, Russia, March 30, 2024. (Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool Photo via AP)
One of the suspects detained in Dagestan has confessed to personally bringing weapons to the Moscow attackers, authorities said.
The FSB released a video in which one of the suspects says they are also planning an attack in the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk. It is not clear whether the two confessions were made by the same person.
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The agency said the suspects were foreign nationals, but did not specify their nationality. The suspected Moscow concert hall attackers, who were arrested hours after the March 22 attack, are nationals of the Central Asian country of Tajikistan.
The arrest of the four suspects in Dagestan followed the arrest of four armed suspects and seven others for their alleged involvement in the attack.
Officials from the extremist group Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that “Islamic extremists” carried out the attack, but insisted, without providing evidence, that Ukraine and Western countries were involved, despite Kiev’s vehement denials.
