The FSB announced the prevention of a terrorist attack in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg. Main

On December 15, the FSB announced the suppression of the “conspiratorial cell” of supporters of the terrorist “Islamic state”, who was led “from abroad through the Internet mixer of Telegram” . Seven people were detained, which, as was said, planned to commit “resonant terrorist acts by self-separated the suicide bombers in one of the cult institutions” and “killing citizens and subversions [home-made bombs] in places of mass location of people”.

The FSB published an operational video detention of the suspects. Several people, according to this shooting, were detained in the apartment; The video shows an unknown white substance, automatic weapons, TNT checkers, as well as Islamic literature (the FSB reported “extremist literature”).

One person was detained on the street. This is a young man; He says to the camera that “he had to make explosives and pack it on bottles and attach some damaging elements,” and mentions the explosive substance of the three-re-scam of acetone, which is stored in the “Angara”. Fontanka writes that this is 18-year-old Evgeny Efimov.

Update December 17. "Fontanka" writes that in the materials of the case of Efimov there are contradictions. The official time for his detention is the hour of the night on December 14, although it is delayed in the video in the daytime. According to his lawyer, the video is not staged and Efimov was detained on the morning of December 13; Where his client was located until one in the morning, when his detention was officially issued, the lawyer did not explain.

Fontanka compares Efimov’s calm behavior in the video with the behavior of the Azimov brothers, whom the investigation considers the organizers of the April attack in the metro of St. Petersburg. The truthfulness of the operational shooting of their detentions also raised doubts - for example, Akram Azimov was detained at a stop in Moscow with a grenade in a waist bag, although the day before his relatives said that he was detained in Kyrgyzstan and sent to Russia. The defense of Azimov pointed out inconsistencies in court.

According to Fontanka, about ten days before the arrest, Efimov rented a cargo container near house No. 8 on Lithuanian Street. Four days later, the owner of the container felt a “sharp chemical smell” near him, opened the second key and saw “powder placers, empty canister and bottles with organic matter”, and apparently turned to law enforcement agencies (the publication does not mention this).

According to the lawyer Alexander Postyuev, Efimov was detained, including due to the vigilance of his relatives, Rosbalt reports , and he was seized with “firearms and explosives of industrial rather than artisanal production”.

Efimov was arrested on Friday. According to the United press service of St. Petersburg courts, at the meeting, he spoke about plans to arrange an explosion in the Kazan Cathedral of St. Petersburg-not on the 16th, but on December 17, on Sunday. According to Fontanka, in court he "repented, expressed his readiness to testify to like -minded people, and blamed him on a third -party influence." He is suspected of illegal production of explosives and in preparation for a terrorist attack.

On December 16, the Vytro court arrested the alleged accomplice of Efimov, a 22-year-old native of Kazakhstan Anton Kobz, who, according to the investigation, helped him "in the intelligence of the area to select the scene of the explosion and gave advice on the attack." According to Fontanka, he was detained on the evening of December 15 - that is, he is probably not among the seven detainees, which the FSB spoke of. Cobts is suspected of making a terrorist attack.

Of the few published data, it is not clear how the roles in the preparation of the crime were distributed and who, according to the investigation, were Efimov and Kobets - the organizers of the attacks or the performers involved in the preparation of the crime. Their connection with other six criminals, about which nothing has been reported has been reported, is unclear.

It is not clear what role in the alleged explosion in the Kazan Cathedral was supposed to play Efimov-in court he said, according to the press service that he was preparing explosives to “blow up the Kazan Cathedral”, and the FSB said that the explosion in a cult institution was about to arrange a suicide bomber. At the same time, Fontanka writes that after the attacks he allegedly was going to leave for Syria (where, according to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the fight against IS has already been completed).

It is not known about the individuals of the alleged terrorists - in the media there is only information about Evgenia Efimov. Fontanka writes that he is unemployed, without higher education and idle. Rosbalt reports that he "recently accepted Islam." According to his lawyer, there are "more seasoned terrorists" and Efimov, "most likely not the main suspect."

Update . On the evening of December 17, the Kremlin announced that President Vladimir Putin called the American leader Donald Trump and thanked him for the help of the CIA in the disclosure of the prepaid terrorist attacks in St. Petersburg.

Victor Davydov