Neuf suspects arrested in Tajikistan in the investigation of the attack in Moscow

DOUCHANBE (Reuters) – Nine people, suspected of links with the Islamic State (EI) group, were arrested on Monday in Tajikistan in the framework of the investigation into the murderous attack in Moscow, a Tajik security source told Reuters .

Les quatre tireurs presumés qui ont mené l’assaut vendredi dernier contre le Crocus City Hall, une salle de concert de la banlieue de Moscou, sont d’origine Tajik. They were arrested by the Russian security forces with seven other suspects.

The suspects arrested in Tajikistan were interpellated in the city of Vakhdat and transferred to Douchanbé, the capital, the source told Reuters, without further details.

The attack in Moscou, revendiqué par la branche afghane de l’EI, a fait au moins 143 morts.

The comité d’enquête russe a dit judi avoir des “proofs” that the authors of the attack were tied to the “nationalists of Ukraine”, which Kyiv categorically denied.

(Report Nazarali Pirnazarov, edited by Olzhas Auyezov, version française Sophie Louet, edited by Kate Entringer)