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| Alleged supporter of IS detained in Stavropol | |
| 2022-04-14 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] A supporter of the "Islamic state" from Stavropol planned to carry out a terrorist attack at the railway station, elements of an explosive device were seized from him, the FSB said. The Federal Security Service has detained a local resident in Stavropol, a supporter of the international terrorist organization "Islamic State" who was planning to commit a terrorist act on one of the transport infrastructure facilities, the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of Russia reported today. The suspect was arrested while preparing to commit a terrorist attack. "Explosives and submunitions
The FSB also released a video of the suspect's arrest and interrogation. In the video, two security forces handcuff a man, who is lying on the ground, and then lead him to a car. Then, the video shows a five-liter bottle seized from him, nails, electrical tape, syringes, saltpeter, glue, sealant, acetone, self-tapping screws, sugar, follows from a video published by TASS. During the interrogation, the detainee said that he intended to detonate a bomb at the railway station. "I met a man who is a member and amir of the international terrorist group Islamic State *. I trusted him. He forced me to film the building of the railway station, forced me to buy [everything] for terrorist attacks, for explosions, so that I could do it" - said the detainee. He specified that he was to leave the bomb at the train station and wait for instructions. "When I arrived at the station, I was detained by the FSB," says the suspect in the video. The " Caucasian Knot " also wrote that in February the Department of the Russian Sledkom for the Stavropol Territory reported on the start of an investigation into a criminal case against an 18-year-old resident of the Kirov District on the preparation of a terrorist attack. According to investigators, he planned to blow up "one of Novopavlovsk's infrastructure facilities." On October 22, 2021, the FSB reported on the detention in the Stavropol Territory of a supporter of the international terrorist organization Islamic State (IS) banned in Russia. According to investigators, he was preparing a terrorist attack on the transport infrastructure of the region. The court in Stavropol decided to arrest him for two months. Interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" Stavropol activists, journalists and a human rights activist pointed out that the FSB's version of the preparation of a terrorist attack in the Stavropol Territory causes mistrust due to the implausibility and scarcity of information disseminated by the security forces. | |
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