THE Russian security service FSB announced that the suspects arrested Sunday in Dagestan, in the Russian Caucasus, and accused of plotting an attack, are linked to the perpetrators of the concert hall attack near Moscow committed on March 22.
THE National Anti-Terrorism Commission (NAK) announced the arrest in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk in Dagestan of three people who planned “to commit a series of terrorist crimes”ten days after the Crocus City Hall attack, which claimed the lives of 144 people.
In its clarifications, the FSB noted that these persons, foreign nationals, “They were preparing a terrorist attack in public places in Caspian Sea”a city located near the capital of Dagestan, a predominantly Muslim Russian republic in the Caucasus, which is rife with instability.
NAK had announced the arrest of three people, but the FSB said today that four had been arrested. The people arrested were in possession of an improvised explosive device and automatic weapons.
The FSB also clarified today that those arrested “were directly involved in the financing and provision of equipment and terrorist means to the perpetrators of the terrorist act committed on March 22, 2024” at Crocus City Hall.
The jihadist organization claimed responsibility for the attack on this concert hall Islamic state. However, Russia also says it believes “Ukrainian nationalists” are linked to the attack, a claim that Kiev has categorically denied.
The four men charged by Russian authorities with carrying out the attack were from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in central Asia where Islamic State is active.
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