MOSCOW: One of the suspects of Moscow terrorist attack, Fariddun told the Russian interrogators that he and his accomplices killed people in attack on a concert for money.
Fariddun is a Tajik national and the Russian security officials arrested him along with 10 other attackers soon after the tragic terror attack in Moscow.
Russian state-controlled media released footage of law enforcement officers interrogating three men suspected of perpetrating the deadly attack on a concert hall in the Moscow region the previous night.
More than 140 Russians have been killed in the terrorist attack on a concert hall in Moscow on Friday night. Moscow Time reported the latest development about the suspects in the custody.
Earlier that Saturday, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced the apprehension of 11 individuals, including four suspected attackers, in connection with the assault on Friday.
In one of the interrogation videos disseminated by the RIA Novosti news agency, a man was depicted lying face down on the ground while another individual, whose identity remained undisclosed, gripped his hair, positioning him to face the camera.
The interrogator inquired, “What were you doing in Turkey?”
The detainee responded, “My documents expired there, so I crossed the border here,” presumably alluding to his passport. He then identified himself as Shamsutdin Fariddun, stating his date of birth as September 17, 1998.
The Russia’s Interior Ministry stated on Saturday that the four suspected gunmen arrested after Friday night’s deadly attack were foreigners, with some media outlets suggesting that they included citizens of the Central Asian republic of Tajikistan.
Addressing Fariddun, the interrogator inquired in the video, “What were you doing at Crocus [City Hall]?” referencing the site of the mass shooting.
“We were shooting… people… for money,” Fariddun confessed.
He further elaborated that he had been promised 1 million rubles ($10,800) to execute the attack, half of which he claimed to have already received via card transfer.
Fariddun, visibly trembling, admitted ignorance regarding the identity of those who hired him for the attack, but mentioned that they had contacted him through the messaging app Telegram.
It’s worth noting that Russia’s FSB has faced allegations in the past of fabricating interrogation videos.
In another video released by RIA Novosti, a second man, conversing in Tajik, was seen undergoing interrogation via an off-camera interpreter.
He asserted that he had been residing in a hostel with other suspected perpetrators of Friday’s attack and claimed communication with individuals named Abdullo and Muhammad, though the exact reference of these names remained unclear.
In a third video, another man detained by law enforcement officers introduced himself as Rajab Alizadeh.
An off-camera voice queried him, “When you fled Moscow, you were armed. Where did you dispose of the weapons? There or here?”
Alizadeh, his face and attire stained with blood, with his head bandaged, replied, “Somewhere along the road,” unable to precisely recall the location where he and his associates had abandoned their weapons.
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