[Regnum] Law enforcement officers detained 54-year-old Khasan Altemirov in Ingushetia, who is an accomplice to the organizers of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow. This was reported on Saturday, June 13.
According to Izvestia's source, Altemirov was taken into custody in connection with the illegal possession of a combat grenade.
Investigators discovered that the detainee was an accomplice of radicals belonging to the Batalkhadzhin community
| …followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji (also known as Batal-haji Belkharoyev), revered Sufi Islam teacher during the early part of the 20th century in Ingushetia and other parts of the North Caucasus. They appear to engage in the usual misbehaviours common to the region, and in 2023 sent a rapid response detachment (the Batalkhadzhinsky Rapid Response Detachment (BOBR) to fight with the Akhmat special forces. Naturally Russia finds this objectionable... |
Among those who received fake passports from Altemirov was Batyr Kulaev, one of the direct organizers of the attack on Crocus City Hall (listed as a terrorist and extremist by Rosfinmonitoring). The source reported that, thanks to the forged documents, Kulaev was able to successfully flee the country.
The terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall occurred on March 22, 2024. Terrorists stormed the building, opened fire, and started a fire. As a result of the attack, 150 people were killed, one remains missing, and 609 were injured.
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