Putin’s cops parade ISIS terrorists who killed 137 in Moscow massacre ‘after chopping one’s ear off & feeding it to him’
Three suspects have pleaded guilty to the charges against them
DRAMATIC footage captured the moment ISIS terror suspects accused of slaughtering 137 in a Moscow concert hall were dragged in for interrogation.
Three of the four suspects involved in the deadly concert hall attack have pleaded guilty to the charges against them.
Four men have been charged with committing a terrorist attack resulting in the deaths of others by Moscow’s Basmanny district court.
The men, who have been named as Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32; Saidakrami Rachabalizoda, 30; Mukhammadsobir Fayzov, 19; and Shamsidin Fariduni, 25, could face life imprisonment.
Rachabalizoda and Fariduni pleaded guilty to some of the charges against them, while Mirzoyev “admitted his guilt in full”.
Fayzov has also been charged with acts of terrorism and all four are being kept in custody pending trial on May 22.
Russian authorities confirmed that the four men are from Tajikistan, and added that the other suspects are all foreign nationals.
So far, 11 people have been detained.
It has been reported that Fayzov was brought to court directly from a hospital and was attended to by medics throughout the proceedings.
The other three suspects appeared in court with heavy bruising on their faces.
Rachabalizoda was brought into court with a bandaged ear, which comes amid claims that one of the suspects had his ear cut off while he was being interrogated.
At least two of the suspected gunmen were filmed bound and blindfolded as they were brought to Russia’s Investigative Committee for Interrogation.
On Friday night, four camouflaged shooters stormed Crocus City Hall and opened fire on the crowd before setting the venue ablaze, killing 137 and wounding over 120.
Four suspects were detained on Saturday by Russia’s security service, the FSB, after they were caught attempting to flee in a white Renault.
Two were apprehended after a car chase and two others fled into a forest before being arrested.
Putin’s security services released gruesome footage of their interrogations throughout Saturday, including a clip of one suspect having his ear cut off and then force fed back to him.
In another, one suspect appears to be missing his eye and is covered in blood, while a third man was filmed tied up and shivering near to a forest as interrogators shouted questions at him.
Russia is currently reeling from its worst terror attack in 20 years and the deadliest in Europe to have been claimed by ISIS.
The death toll was raised from 133 to 137 on Sunday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow.
Russian officials expect the death toll to still rise further, with 110 people still in hospital and 40 in “critical” or “extremely critical” condition.
The Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility for the massacre and has since released a twisted 90 second video of the gunmen carrying out the attack and screaming “kill them all”.
Along with the footage, the terrorists wrote that the attack was “carried out by four IS fighters armed with machine guns, a pistol, knives and firebombs” as part of “the raging war” with “countries fighting Islam”.
It has been a national day of mourning in Russia as family and friends of those still missing wait for news of their loved ones.
Kremlin cronies have also been calling for Russia to reinstate the death penalty following what Putin described as a “barbaric terror attack”.
Despite an ISIS splinter cell taking responsibility, Russia has refused to officially declare the death cult responsible.
Instead, Moscow has continued to spew baseless claims linking Kyiv to the slaughter.
In a snarling national TV address yesterday, Putin stated that “all four direct perpetrators” had been found and detained.
However, the tyrant, 71, claimed – without evidence – that the shooters were “travelling towards Ukraine” where a “window was prepared for them” to cross the border.
He made no reference to ISIS’s claims of responsibility in his only public remarks so far on the attack.
Putin’s top ally and security chief Dmitry Medvedev also refused to acknowledge the death cult’s claims.
Instead, he vowed that Russia will hunt down and kill “all those” behind a deadly shooting “wherever they are from and whoever they are”.
“We will avenge each and every one,” he said.
Late last night, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called Putin a “b*****d” for trying to seize the moment of national horror to point the finger at Ukraine.
“What happened yesterday in Moscow is obviously something that Putin and other b*****ds are just trying to blame on someone else,” he said.
“That low-life Putin, instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day, thinking about how to bring it to Ukraine.
“Everything is absolutely predictable.”
Washington on Sunday again rejected that Kyiv was involved in the attack.
“ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack,” said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson. “There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.”
Britain on Saturday warned Putin not to use the Moscow attack to provoke furor in favour of his bloody war in Ukraine, which has entered its third year.
A senior Whitehall security source told : “Putin’s desperation to put all of this on Ukraine is unsurprising, as he tries to further dupe the Russian people whilst pretending that there is no dissent within Russia.
“He must not use this confected connection as any sort of excuse for intensifying his illegal war in Ukraine.”
On Sunday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called the attack “horrific” but said Russia is using it to create “a smokescreen of propaganda”.
Ex-UK defence boss Ben Wallace also hit out at the Kremlin’s claims, stating that Putin has “lies dripping from his lips” and has convinced himself of a “warped” worldview.
Russian state TV has already been caught red-handed using a deepfake of Ukraine’s top security official‘s top security official appearing to brag about Kyiv’s role in the terrorist massacre.
The AI-generated video of Oleksiy Danilov is doing the rounds online in an apparent disinformation campaign to sow fury and confusion over who was behind the shooting attack last night.
Who are ISIS-K and why would they attack Putin's Russia?
RUSSIA is reeling after four terror suspects violently murdered 137 people in Friday's Crocus City Hall massacre in Moscow.
But despite Vladimir Putin’s attempts to place the blame on Ukraine, it is a regional branch of the Islamic State terrorist group, ISIS-K, who have stepped forward and claimed accountability for the horror attack.
Who are ISIS-K?
Islamic State Khorasan (ISIS-K) emerged in eastern Afghanistan in late 2014 and quickly established a reputation for extreme brutality.
One of the most active regional affiliates of the Islamic State militant group, ISIS-K has seen its membership decline since peaking around 2018, with the Taliban and US forces inflicting heavy losses.
But it is feared that ISIS-K has been quietly recruiting and growing its numbers once more and is considered an ongoing threat by the US.
General Michael Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command, told Congress last March that ISIS-K was quickly developing the ability to conduct “external operations” in Europe and Asia.
Friday’s attack has seen Isis-K has take over from Chechen rebels as the perpetrators of the most serious attacks in Russia, including the bombing of the St Petersburg metro in 2017, which left 15 dead.
What attacks have the carried out?
ISIS-K has a history of attacks, including against mosques, inside and outside Afghanistan.
In September 2022, ISIS-K militants claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing at the Russian embassy in Kabul.
The group was also responsible for an attack on Kabul’s international airport in 2021 that killed 13 US troops and scores of civilians during the chaotic US evacuation from the country.
Isis-K has been behind a series of smaller-scale plots, including an attempt earlier this month to attack a synagogue in the Kaluga region southwest of Moscow.
Why would they attack Russia?
Jihadist terrorist movements have long posed a serious threat to Russia.
While the attack by ISIS-K in Russia on Friday was a dramatic escalation, experts said the group has opposed Russian President Vladimir Putin in recent years.
The group is also believed to see Russia as equivalent to the US in its “hatred” for Islam.
“ISIS-K has been fixated on Russia for the past two years, frequently criticising Putin in its propaganda,” said Colin Clarke of Soufan Center, a New York-based research group.
Michael Kugelman of the Washington-based Wilson Center said ISIS-K “sees Russia as being complicit in activities that regularly oppress Muslims.”
He added that the group also counts as members a number of Central Asian militants with their own grievances against Moscow.
CONCERT HALL MASSACRE
On Friday night, masked men in camouflage gear wielding automatic weapons stormed the packed Crocus City Hall – opening fire and hurling explosives into a crowd.
Some 6,000 people are believed to have been inside the venue watching Russian rock band Picnic when the bloodshed began.
The gunmen began shooting civilians at point-blank range – through glass doors, turnstiles and then the concert hall itself, traumatised witnesses said.
The bodies of whole families were found, dead mothers embracing their dead children, Russian media reported.
Horrifying accounts have emerged in the wake of the shooting attack.
Witnesses described how four armed men walked calmly towards the metal detectors at Crocus City Hall, firing their automatic weapons point-blank in short bursts and terrified civilians fell screaming in a hail of bullets.
Footage showed dozens of bodies, some in pools of blood, lay motionless on the marble floors and at the main entrance.
One survivor, Natalya, said: “The shots came from behind us.
“It was loud, like a firecracker blast, fireworks, but like an automatic burst. I could hear it right behind me, not far away.”
Then Natalya ran for her life. “Everyone was screaming; everyone was running.”
Another witness said: “We huddled in a corner at the entrance. He [gunman] came up and started shooting directly at people.
“They had black hair. They were shouting at each other and it was not Russian speech.”
Another woman told how she feigned being shot – which saved her life.
She said: “They [the terrorists] were standing at the exit, we didn’t go there, but they saw us.”
“One of them came running back and started shooting at us.
“I fell on the floor, and pretended to die. A girl next to me was killed.”
Witnesses told of leaping over fire, some with their clothes melting, to escape the blaze which caused the roof to collapse as over a 100 people hid in the basement.
It has also emerged that Putin rubbished warnings from the US and UK about an “imminent” terror attack just three days before.
British and US intelligence services alerted Russia earlier this month of the threat of a terror attack on Moscow – something the Kremlin sought to downplay, describing it as “provocative”.
The French government has raised its security alert warning to the highest level on Sunday after the deadly attack in Moscow.
Prime Minister Gabriel Attal took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to share that the decision was made “in light of the Islamic State claiming responsibility for the (Moscow) attack and the threats weighing on our country”.
The announcement followed an emergency meeting between Attal, President Emmanuel Macron, and senior security and defence officials.
The French security alert system has three levels – the highest level only being activated if there is an attack on France, or if it is believed that one is imminent.
