On Sunday, a terrorist attack occurred at the Basmannyi courthouse in Moscow during the interrogation of suspects. 137 people were killed and over 180 were injured on the outskirts of Moscow on Friday night when a group of gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall before a concert. The suspects fled the scene, but on Saturday morning, the Russian security service FSB announced that they had arrested eleven suspects, four of whom are believed to have participated in the act themselves at the concert hall.
Four of the terrorist suspects are said to be citizens of Tajikistan. The president of Tajikistan, Emomali Rahman, condemned the attacks on Sunday. Shortly after the act, ISIS-K claimed responsibility for it. The suspects were brought to the Investigative Committee headquarters in Moscow on Sunday. The exact locations where they were arrested have varied from Teply, located near Belarusian border, to Hatsun which is near Bryansk city about 100 km away from both Ukraine and Belarus borders. It is approximately 400 km from Moscow to this location. Russia claimed that perpetrators were fleeing towards Ukraine shortly after the attack.
Videos of the arrest and interrogation situation began spreading on social media, showing alleged torture of suspects by members of Russian Social Chamber and Vladimir Rogov who published it through his Telegram channel on Saturday. The suspects will be held in pretrial detention for at least two months while Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov declined to comment on terrorism investigation and torture allegations while hinting that Western countries may use ISIS as an excuse for their “protection routes” in Kiev according Reuters news agency report .
In addition, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that several ISIS-K attack attempts have been thwarted in France recently
