MOSCOW: 4 males accused of involvement within the Moscow concert hall attack that killed at least 137 people have been charged with terrorism on Sunday (Mar 24) and ordered to be detained pending trial.
All 4 threat a life sentence in jail, a press release from Moscow’s Basmanny district courtroom stated.
The boys have been ordered to be held till Could 22, however that may very well be prolonged relying on when the date for his or her trial is fastened.
The courtroom stated two of the defendants had pleaded responsible, one in all them, from Tajikistan, “solely acknowledged his guilt”, stated the assertion.
Officers have already stated the gunmen have been all overseas nationals.
Russian officers say they’ve arrested 11 folks in reference to Friday night time’s assault on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow’s northern suburb of Krasnogorsk, together with 4 of those that carried out the killings.
The courtroom launched footage displaying three suspects being dropped at a courtroom handcuffed and bent double by cops. They have been seated in a glass-fronted cell reserved for defendants.
A fourth man arrived in a wheelchair, his eyes closed.
One of many defendants had one in all his ears bandaged, as in earlier movies of their arrest Saturday, when three of them had bloodied faces.
Though the Islamic State group has claimed accountability for the assault, Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to recommend Kyiv’s involvement when he stated Saturday that that they had been arrested whereas making an attempt to flee to Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the United States have dismissed any suggestion Kyiv was concerned.
The assault was the deadliest carried out in Russia because the starting of the 2000s.
