© Reuters. A suspect within the taking pictures assault on the Crocus Metropolis Corridor live performance venue is escorted contained in the Basmanny district courtroom in Moscow, Russia March 24, 2024. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Monday solid doubt on assertions by the US that the Islamic State militant group was chargeable for a gun assault on a live performance corridor outdoors Moscow which killed 137 individuals and injured 182 extra.
Within the inside Russia for twenty years, 4 males burst into the Crocus Metropolis Corridor on Friday evening, spraying individuals with bullets simply earlier than Soviet-era rock group Picnic was to carry out its hit “Afraid of Nothing”.
4 males, not less than one a Tajik, had been remanded in custody for terrorism. They appeared individually, led right into a cage at Moscow’s Basmanny district courtroom by Federal Safety Service officers.
Islamic State has claimed accountability for the assault, a declare which the US has publicly mentioned it believed, and the militant group has since launched what it says is footage from the assault. U.S. officers mentioned they warned Russia of intelligence about an imminent assault earlier this month.
However President Vladimir Putin has not publicly talked about the Islamist militant group in reference to the attackers, who he mentioned had been making an attempt to flee to Ukraine.
Putin mentioned some individuals on “the Ukrainian facet” had been ready to spirit the gunmen throughout the border. Ukraine has denied any function within the assault and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Putin of searching for to divert blame for the live performance corridor assault by referring to Ukraine.
Russia’s Overseas Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, known as into query U.S. assertions that Islamic State, which as soon as sought management over swathes of Iraq and Syria, was behind the assault.
“Consideration – a query to the White Home: Are you positive it is ISIS? Would possibly you suppose once more about that?” Zakharova mentioned in an article for the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
Zakharova mentioned the US was spreading a model of the “bogeyman” of Islamic State to cowl its “wards” in Kyiv and reminded readers that Washington supported the “mujahideen” fighters who fought Soviet forces within the Nineteen Eighties.
The U.S. has intelligence confirming Islamic State’s declare of accountability two U.S. officers mentioned on Friday.
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Putin mentioned 11 individuals had been detained, together with the 4 suspected gunmen, who fled the live performance corridor and made their solution to the Bryansk area, about 340km (210 miles) southwest of Moscow, to slide throughout the border to Ukraine.
Unverified movies of the suspects’ interrogations circulated on social media. One of many suspects was proven having a part of his ear lower off and stuffed into his mouth.
One man, a Tajik named Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, leaned towards the glass cage because the terrorism cost was learn out. Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, his ear in bandages, sat.
Muhammadsobir Fayzov, appeared in gaping hospital garments and sat in a medical chair, his face coated in cuts. Shamsiddin Fariduni, his face bruised, stood.
Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, triggering a serious European warfare after eight years of battle in jap Ukraine between Ukrainian forces on one facet and pro-Russian Ukrainians and Russian proxies on the opposite.
The U.S. and its European allies have supported Ukraine, extending billions of {dollars} of cash, weapons and intelligence in a bid to defeat Russian forces.
The French authorities mentioned late on Sunday it was elevating its terror alert warning to its highest stage following the shootings in Moscow.