In Tatarstan, the capture of hostages and poisoning of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB is prevented in Tatarstan

Taxi drivers from Nizhnekamsk Ruslan Shamsshutdinov and Ilshat Zainatdinov accused of preparing the terrorist attack in Tatarstan planned mass poisoning of law enforcement agencies and hostage captures, the representative of the investigation on Thursday at a meeting in the Vakhitovsky court of Kazan.

According to the investigation, which sounded in court, this summer the defendants of the case called on the residents of Nizhnekamsk to commit attacks in the interests of the Islamic State terrorist organization prohibited in the Russian Federation, Interfax reports.

In addition, the investigators found that the detainees were looking for poison to poison the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB in departmental canteens, planned the seizure of hostages, including law enforcement officials, going to first find out official information from them, and then kill.

The defendants deny guilt. "I am accused of calling for terrorist activities. I was just interested in, I studied this topic. As a result, I realized that this was not that I was even a lot. The second - I was accused of finding powders. But when we were delayed ... in short, they all threw it," Shamsshutdinov told the court.

The second accused - Zainagutdinov - said in court that he also did not agree with the charge. “I know that what I am charged with did not do it. Everything was generally different,” he said. According to him, the things that the operatives found in the car were not there before, and he was not going to commit a crime.

On Thursday, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan arrested both accused before September 29 for promoting terrorist activities and public calls for terrorism.

On Wednesday, it was reported that the FSB officers, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, prevented the attack in Tatarstan, detaining two Russians, supporters of IG*. It was noted that they were going to commit a crime at the republican infrastructure. In the detainees, explosives and components of homemade explosive devices were found.