He Russian FSBthe omnipresent intelligence services under orders from the Kremlin, have leaked this Saturday the first images of the arrest of the suspects of the attack in Moscow. An attack recorded this Friday in which, so far, they have died 115 personas. A provisional balance that may increase in the coming hours, since firefighters continue to find bodies under the rubble of the auditorium, where at least 4 men – already detained – opened fire with long weapons. The arrests took place more than 300 kilometers from the Russian capital by FSB commandos – in military camouflage uniforms – and members of the police. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has linked the perpetrators to Ukraine, where he says they were heading after the attack.
The images, recorded by agents participating in the operation, show three men with Caucasian featureswhile they are interrogated by Russian security forces about their alleged participation in the Moscow attacks.
According to the translation of these videos, one of the men claims to have arrived in Russia through Turkey on March 4. In his version, his participation in the attack occurred “for money”since he says they offered him half a million rubles -some 5.000 euros– for participating in this attack. He explains that he and other participants were contacted through a Telegram group for a “preacher», and that they prepared the attack for a month. He does not speak directly about his affiliation with the Islamic State, the group that has claimed responsibility for the massacre.
In another video, a suspect is also seen being interrogated for his alleged involvement, while the third shows a man being led to a vehicle with a bloody face and guarded by two agents.
Islamist track
Moscow is already investigating the main hypothesis of jihadist responsibility after the attack on the concert hall Crocus City Hallan attack perpetrated by four individuals with long weapons who riddled at least 143 personas. There are already 11 detainees, four of them as possible perpetrators. The discovery of a white Renault in which the perpetrators arrived to the theater, with passports of Tajikistan Inside, it endorses the jihadist track opened this Friday night after learning that the Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack. The Kremlin has already leaked to the Russian media the Photographs of the four alleged perpetrators of the attack.
These are four men with features from the Caucasus and the regions of Central Asia, in line with what has already been announced in reference to their possible origin in Tajikistan. In the vehicle located, in addition to the passports, some magazines and ammunition that fit the weapons used in the attack were also found.
The Islamic State has claimed the action through its communication and propaganda agency Al-Amaqwhich he had already used in the past for advertisements of this type, although on occasions he has claimed responsibility for attacks in which it was finally proven that he had not participated.
It so happens that in July 2023, Germany dismantled a cell of a newly founded terrorist group, originally from Tajikistan, that sought to commit attacks in Europe with weapons and explosives. Their actions were in the preparation phase, but it was found that they had sworn allegiance to the regional branch of the “Islamic State Khorasan Province”. The so-called ISIS-K, which is still present in some areas of Central Asia such as Afghanistan or Pakistan and with a growing presence in the former Soviet republics in the region.
Eleven arrested
The Russian Federal Security Service has announced the arrest of four suspicious individuals of perpetrating the attack this past Friday in the Moscow concert hall Crocus City Hallwhich has left for now 143 muertos y more than 145 injured.
The director of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikovhas already informed the president of Russia of these arrests, Vladimir Putinaccording to a statement collected by the Russian network RBC.
Likewise, Bortnikov has also reported other detainees allegedly linked at various levels to the attack on the concert hall.
Shortly before, the head of the Information Policy Committee of the Russian Duma, Alexander Khinstein, advanced the arrest of two suspects in the attack after the Police intercepted their vehicle near the town of Jatsun, Bryansk region, about 340 kilometers southwest of Moscow. Inside, documents with the seal of Tajikistan.