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The terrorist tried to blow up the bomb in the restaurant "Ginger" in the center of Moscow; The FSB officer died
When cleansing the explosive device on Thursday night at the Ginger restaurant, in the center of Moscow on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, the high-grade explosive engineer Major FSB 29, 29-year-old Georgy Stanislavovich Trofimov. July 30, he was supposed to be 30 years old. Trofimov had a daughter.
It was he who cleared the belt of the Shahida last Saturday, which did not fully explode during the terrorist attack in Tushin .
(Photo AP from July 5 - Trofimov clenches the belt of the marty in Tushin:
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Help: FSB Major Georgy Trofimov
Her accomplice was detained - a 26 -year -old resident of Moscow, Chechen Zurab Dadaev
Terrorists initially planned to blow up the restaurant Mon Cafe
How the events developed
At about 23:00 Moscow time, a woman tried to enter the restaurant "Ginger", located in the house of 16 on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. Her behavior attracted the attention of the restaurant. When trying to check her shoulder backpack, the woman threw him and tried to hide.
Then the guards called the police. Around 23:20, a signal of a suspicious visitor was received on the remote control in the city on duty in the city, in appearance - a resident of the Caucasus.
The arrived police officers managed to detain a woman who stated that her bag was in her bag, and she was ready to drive him. The policemen put handcuffs on it and carried the bag onto the street.
The explosion -technical group of the FSB in Moscow and the region was called to the scene, which for several hours tried to destroy the bag using a special robot.
As a result of the explosion, glass was knocked out in several buildings along the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street
After several shelling from the hydraulic bundle, the remnants of the explosive device began to inspect the FSB-explosive equipment officer, during which there was a spontaneous undermining of the bomb.
According to Kirill Mazurin, Deputy Head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Main Directorate of Moscow, the tragedy occurred at 2:15 Thursday. The 29-year-old FSB explosion Georgy Trofimov died on the spot.
As a result of the explosion, glass was knocked out in several buildings along the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street.
According to the source in law enforcement agencies, with the spontaneous operation of the explosive device, "the chances of survival at the explosive technique, even dressed in a protective suit, were minimal."
The device exploded in the center of Moscow was equivalent to 400 grams of TNT and filled with damaging elements
The capacity of the explosive device, which was supposed to work in the restaurant "Ginger" in the center of Moscow, according to various sources, was from 400 grams to 2 kilograms in TNT equivalent.
This was announced by Interfax on Thursday the head of the information department of information and regional and promotional relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Yuri Shuvalov.
"The bomb was filled with damaging elements - to increase the number of victims," said the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
As investigators note, if the explosive device worked at the place of detection, in the premises of the restaurant "Ginger", then "the victims would be calculated in dozens."
According to preliminary data, a military explosive-plastum (PVV) was used as an explosive. A similar explosives were used in explosive devices during a terrorist attack in Tushin, a source noted.
The mechanism that has driven an explosive device, according to the operatives, was equipped with several fuses duplicated, including those established "for immunity."
A terrorist whose identity has already been established was intoxicated
The personality of the terrorist, who was preparing a terrorist attack in the center of Moscow, has already been established. According to unconfirmed data, this is Zarima Muzhikhoev - a native of Chechnya, an Ingush by nationality.
Zarima Muzhikhoeva - 23 years. According to some reports, her husband died during the Chechen campaign. This attempt at the attack can be considered the next terrorist attack of the Black Widow .
The terrorist arrived in the capital from Nazran by plane on July 3. Investigators do not exclude that the detainee for an attempt to hold a terrorist act on Tverskaya - Yamskaya Street in the capital also passed special training in the camps of terrorists located in Chechnya.
According to preliminary data, Zarim Muzhikhoev could be the third participant in the attack in Tushin . This was reported in law enforcement agencies of the capital.
According to this information, the circulation of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate to the population, widespread on the eve of the publication of any data about the “eyewitness of the terrorist attack” - a dark -haired forty -year -old woman, could encourage the alleged accomplices of terrorists to attempt another terrorist attack, the place for which she selected spontaneously.
According to some reports, during an attempt to commit the attack, the detained woman was intoxicated.
First, it was delivered to the 10th police station, and then the investigative insulator of the FSB Lefortovo.
After a night interrogation, investigators said that the woman was supposedly part of the "criminal group of terrorist orientation."
The 26-year-old accomplice of the terrorist was detained
In Moscow , the alleged accomplice of the terrorist has already been detained . The law enforcement agencies of the capital said that on the basis of the photobot of the alleged accomplice in the territory of the Central Administrative District, a 26-year-old resident of Moscow, a native of Grozny Zurab Dadaev, was detained.
According toRosbalt , Dadaev works in the capital as deputy general director of Len Oil Invest.
Recall that the terrorist had an accomplice, the guards of the restaurant "Ginger" reported. According to them, before the incident, he was with a woman near the restaurant.
Terrorists initially planned to blow up the restaurant Mon Cafe
The woman who tried to blow up the restaurant "Ginger, was seen on Wednesday in the evening near Mon Cafe. She behaved very suspiciously, very nervous.
Investigators suggest that in Mon Cafe she did not drive an explosive device, since there were few visitors .
After Mon Cafe, Muzhikhoev went along Tverskaya Street towards the Triumphal Square, she was seen by employees of night stores and cafes.
The Moscow prosecutor's office qualifies an explosion in the center of the capital as an attempt on terrorism
The Moscow prosecutor’s office opened a criminal case under the article “Attempted terrorism” on the fact of the explosion on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street. This was announced on Thursday by the city prosecutor Mikhail Avdyukov.
"The investigation considers this incident as a continuation of a series of terrorist attacks committed in the last period in Moscow," the prosecutor said.
He noted that at the moment, urgent investigative and operational measures are underway aimed at disclosing the crime. "We have detainees - a woman who carried an explosive device to a restaurant, an active work is being done with her," said Avdyukov.
The metropolitan prosecutor went to the scene and there he headed the work of investigators and the operational service.
A cordon was removed on the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street in Moscow
On the 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya street in the center of Moscow, where an explosion occurred last night, by 11:00 police and special services removed a cordon, and a full traffic was resumed on the highway.
The FSB explosives took explosive samples for examination.
The wipers sweep fragments of glasses and fragments of plaster from the sidewalks.
The administration of the Tverskaya district reported that about 60 glasses were knocked out in the nearest houses in the nearest houses. The restaurant "Ginger" and the office of the bank "1st O.V.K." was most badly affected.
The work on glazing the residential sector is planned to be completed before the end of the day. The restaurant administration intends to order armored glasses, they said in the council.
Material damage caused by residential buildings, restaurant and office premises is specified.
Help: FSB Major Georgy Trofimov
At the Center for Public Relations of the FSB of the Russian Federation, the name of a specialist who prevented the cost of his own life is a terrorist attack in the center of the Russian capital. This is a native of the city of Moscow 29-year-old Major of the FSB Trofimov Georgy Stanislavovich.
He was born on July 30, 1973 and since the fall of 1996 worked in the FSB bodies.
Trofimov worked as a senior expert-explosion engineer of the FSB Institute of Forensics. In 1996 he graduated from the Moscow State Academy of Chemical Engineering.
He was married, he had a child. As noted in the FSB, Trofimov was a cool specialist in his field, had extensive experience in neutralizing dangerous objects.
It was Trofimov that cleared the belt of the marten last Saturday, which did not fully explode during the terrorist attack in Tushin.
The error in his actions, according to the assembly of the COS, is excluded. He acted strictly in accordance with the instructions. Based on the results of the preliminary investigation by specialists, "its actions when neutralizing the explosive device are recognized as technically correct and competent."
As the FSB was connected, at the first stage, a remotely controlled robot with a hydraulic foil was used near the Cafe of the Hydrauli cafe (IVO) near the Cafe. After the Trofimov’s hydrodynamic strikes made on the IEV, as the instruction prescribes, approached the remnants of the IED to make sure of its successful neutralization. At this moment, according to reports, there was an involuntary closure of contacts between the remains of the IEV and the power sources. As a result, there was an explosion that led to the death of the officer.
However, according to other sources, the explosive device could be put into effect remotely when Trofimov approached him.