Flames inside the Crocus City Hall concert hall – Europa Press/Contact/Cao Yang
MADRID, 31 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Russia has requested this Sunday from Ukraine the “immediate arrest and extradition” of all people involved in terrorist attacks such as the one that claimed the lives of 144 people at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk on March 22, at outskirts of Moscow.
«The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has forwarded to the Ukrainian authorities requests in accordance with the framework of the International Convention for the Prosecution of Terrorist Bomb Attacks and the International Convention for the Prosecution of the Financing of Terrorism for the immediate arrest and extradition of all the people involved in these terrorist attacks,” Moscow said.
The Russian Government thus refers to the “bloody terrorist attack” of March 22 that “shocked the entire world”, “the first terrorist attack against our country in recent times.” “Investigations by the competent Russian authorities indicate that the clues to all these crimes lead to Ukraine,” he points out.
The attack has been claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State. However, Russian authorities detained four of the perpetrators of the attack when they were heading to the border with Ukraine and maintain that kyiv was preparing to welcome them.
The statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry also recalls “other barbaric terrorist attacks” with explosives such as the one that claimed the life of the daughter of the ultranationalist ideologue Alexander Duguin, Daria Dugina – who Moscow considers a “journalist” – in 2022, or the one in 2023 against that of the pro-Russian Ukrainian blogger Maxim Fomin, known as ‘Vladlen Tatarski’, who regularly collaborated with the Russian Armed Forces.
Moscow also mentions the attack in which the Russian writer and paramilitary Zakhar Prilepin was seriously injured in 2023 or the death of five people due to the explosion of the Crimean Bridge in 2022. “The raids of the terrorist organization Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) “They have caused the death and mutilation of civilians, including children,” he points out.
For all these reasons, they request the arrest of the director of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasil Maliuk, “who cynically acknowledged on March 25 that Ukraine organized the October 2022 Crimean Bridge bomb attack and revealed details of the organization.” of other terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation.
«The fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of each State. “Russia demands that the kyiv regime immediately cease any support for terrorist activities, hand over those responsible and compensate the damage caused to the victims,” he says.
Likewise, Moscow highlights that “the violation of its obligations under the anti-terrorist conventions will have implications for its legal responsibility at the international level.”
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