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| FSB detained ISIS supporter preparing a terrorist attack in Minvody |
| 2023-04-21 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] In the Stavropol Territory, on April 20, FSB officers detained a supporter of the Islamic State terrorist organization. According to the intelligence service, he was preparing a terrorist act at a facility with a mass stay of people in Mineralnye Vody. This was reported in the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. The detainee was seized components and striking elements for the manufacture of an improvised explosive device, as well as means of secret communication with the emissaries of the "Islamic state" in the Middle East region. "On the territory of the Stavropol Territory, the unlawful activities of a citizen of the Russian Federation, a supporter of the banned international terrorist organization ISIS, were discovered and suppressed," the report said. The FSB clarified that the suspect, at the direction of foreign emissaries, planned to commit a terrorist attack "on one of the objects of mass stay of people." A criminal case has been initiated against the detainee for preparing for a terrorist attack. As REGNUM reported, on April 17, the FSB announced that it had stopped the activities of one of the leaders of the ISIS. It has been established that a Tajik citizen planned terrorist attacks in several Russian cities. According to the intelligence services, the detainee created a cell of a terrorist organization to carry out sabotage and terrorist attacks in Moscow, the Moscow region and Novosibirsk using improvised explosive devices. He had to put them into action in crowded places, including Russian Railways facilities. Kavkaz Uzel adds: ...in October 2022, the Federal Security Service reported three times  that terrorist attacks had been prevented and members of three groups of supporters of radical movements had been detained. Twice, according to the security forces, supporters of the Islamic State terrorist organization were detained, on October 28, 2022, the FSB reported on the detention of supporters of Ukrainian radical organizations. Among the targets of the terrorists, the security forces named an administrative facility, a police department and a transport infrastructure facility. The closed nature of the FSB does not allow verifying the authenticity  of the reports about the three terrorist attacks that were thwarted in the Stavropol Territory, but the security forces are obviously interested in demonstrating the importance of their work against the backdrop of the military operation, analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" pointed out. Related: Stavropol: 2023-04-18 Perspective from the Breakaway Republics: Invasion of Ukraine: April 17th, 2023 Stavropol: 2023-04-15 Three residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in terrorists Stavropol: 2023-04-14 Participant in the attack on policemen in Chechnya received a life sentence Related: Mineralnye Vody: 2023-02-04 A resident of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky received a term for trying to join the militants Mineralnye Vody: 2022-11-24 Astrakhan citizen convicted of trying to join Syrian militants Mineralnye Vody: 2022-09-28 Russians fearing conscription flood across border to Georgia and Mongolia |
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