Izvestia: the organizers of the attack on Crocus were preparing another terrorist attack
The organizers of the attack on Crocus City Hall were simultaneously preparing another terrorist attack — in one of the countries of Central Asia, but they were able to prevent it, Izvestia writes, citing an informed source.
The publication’s interlocutor did not name the country where the terrorist attack was being prepared, but indicated that it was supposed to happen at approximately the same time as the attack at Crocus City Hall. The source also spoke about previously unknown details of the preparation for the terrorist attack in the Moscow region. According to his information, the criminals set the concert venue on fire with regular gasoline.
“On the way to Crocus, they stopped at a gas station, bought gasoline and poured it into plastic bottles. Then they used it to set the hall on fire,” he shared the details.
The source added that the group was not an organized terrorist cell — it did not operate within a specific structure, but was created literally a few weeks before the terrorist attack in the concert hall hall Two of its participants were instructed during a trip to Turkey, and the rest were recruited on the territory of the Russian Federation, the interlocutor said.