Russian television broadcasts interrogation of suspects
Russian television on Saturday broadcast images of the interrogation after their arrest of the four suspected attackers of the terrorist attack carried out on Friday at Crocus City Hall. Russian public broadcaster Pervy Kanal showed footage showing the four suspected attackers, whose arrest Russian authorities announced on Saturday in the Bryansk region, being taken away by members of the Russian security forces. armed order, three of them with blood on their faces.
One of the suspects has a large white bandage around his head and blood on his right ear. In the footage of their interrogations, two of the suspects admit their guilt, one saying they acted for money.
According to Russian media and MP Alexander Khinstein, some of these suspects are from Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia neighboring Afghanistan where the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the Moscow attack, is active. . Investigators did not mention the nationality of the suspects, only saying that they were not Russian.
Pervy Kanal also broadcast an extract of the images of an interrogation of the man with the bloody bandage around his right ear without mentioning another video broadcast on social networks, the authenticity of which could not be verified. by Agence France-Presse. In this video, a man with black hair and a light brown t-shirt is held on the ground, a piece of his right ear is cut off. A person who is out of frame then tries to force it into his mouth and punches him in the cheek.
The leader of Chechnya, a republic in the Russian Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov, for his part, said that Chechen soldiers, deployed for months in the Bryansk region to secure the border with Ukraine, participated in the arrest of suspects.
Belarus, a country allied with Moscow, also indicated that it had taken part in operations aimed at preventing the attackers from ” to go out [du territoire russe] by the common border » with Ukraine. None of the videos mention Ukraine or the Islamic State organization.