The defendant in the Crocus terrorist attack case was detained in a Dagestani mosque

After the counter-terrorism operation was declared in Dagestan, a native of Tajikistan, Zubaydullo Ismailov, asked his friend to buy him a ticket to Turkey, and he himself took refuge in the New Agachaul mosque, where he was detained.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" reported, on March 22, 2024, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, opened fire and set fire to it. 145 people were killed, and the FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. This terrorist attack became the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. On June 23, it became known that the investigation into the case of 19 people accused of involvement in the terrorist attack has been completed, and their case has been transferred to the prosecutor's office. The military court in Moscow extended until January 7 the arrest of those accused in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow, including two natives of Ingushetia and four detained in Dagestan.

An accomplice of the Crocus City Hall attackers, Tajik citizen Zubaydullo Ismoilov, afraid of being caught by security forces, hid in a mosque in Dagestan, where he was detained, RIA Novosti reported today, citing case materials.

"On March 31, 2024, he saw on TV that a counter-terrorism operation had been introduced in the Republic of Dagestan, he was afraid that he would be detained... he hid in a mosque in the village of Novy Agachaul in the Republic of Dagestan, where he was detained," the materials say.

The case also says that after the counter-terrorism operation was announced in Dagestan, Ismoilov asked his friend to buy him a ticket to Turkey, as he was afraid of being detained.

Ismoilov had previously been convicted in Tajikistan for calls to change the constitutional order of this state, TASS reported today, citing the case materials.

"The testimony of suspect Zubaydullo Ismoilov from 04/03/2024, according to which, since 2012, he has been in the territory of the Russian Federation for work at various times. In 2016, while in the territory of the Republic of Tajikistan, he was prosecuted under Article 307 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (public calls for violent change of the constitutional order of the Republic of Tajikistan), in connection with which he was sentenced to real imprisonment. After being released from prison, from 2021 to 2023 he came to Russia to work," - quotes materials agency.

Recall that on the evening of March 22, 2024, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and opened fire, and also committed arson. The FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. According to official data as of March 30, 144 people were killed in the terrorist attack, 551 were injured, and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev said at a meeting of the secretaries of the security councils of the SCO states on April 3 that the traces of the terrorist attack "lead to the Ukrainian special services."

The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was one of the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. From 1999 until the events at Crocus City Hall, there had been five terrorist attacks there, each killing over 40 people. The largest number of fatalities, 130 people, was attributed to the seizure of the Dubrovka Theater Center.

"Caucasian Knot" maintains an updated chronicle of terrorist attacks committed in Russia since 1999. News on this topic is published by "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Caucasus". Also, "Kavkazsky Uzel" in the section "North Caucasus - statistics of victims" publishes information about the victims of the armed conflict in the North Caucasus and keeps a chronicle "Dagestan: chronicle of terror (1996-2024)".

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