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Date
04/02/2024
Author
Новая газета Европа
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Novaya Gazeta Europe
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The Chechen, detained after the terrorist attack in Crocus, died in the police department

The opposition channel ADAT1 claims that it was covered to death. Main

Police at Crocus City Hall after the terrorist attack, March 22, 2024. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA-EFE

The Chechen Askhab Upanov, detained in the night after the terrorist attack in Crocus on March 22, died in the police department, presumably as a result of torture, reports ADAT1 telegram channel. He also published a video with the body of a man on which traces of beating are visible. The security forces do not comment on the situation.

The main thing about him and the last two arrested on suspicion of the attack is in the material of the New Evrop.

Askhab Upanov

On March 29, the opposition Chechen telegram channel ADAT1, which belongs to the Russian Folk Movement of the Adat Folk Movement,
reported
that on the night of the attack in Crocus, the security forces detained the native of Chechnya Askhab Upanov. He is also known as Askhab Khasmagomedovich Kasuev. Presumably, he was among 11 detained on suspicion of involvement in the attack, which the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov reported.

“He returned home after work and waited for his bus at the stop. There, people in masked people attacked him, but because he did not understand what kind of people were and why he was attacked, he naturally resisted. Later it turned out that these were employees of law enforcement agencies in Moscow, and they detained him on suspicion of complicity in the attack, ”the post said.

Askhab Upanov. Photo: Adat1 / Telegram

According to ADAT1, Upanov is about 30 years old, he is from the village of Tevzan Vedensky district. The man had an individual entrepreneur in the construction sector, he worked with his brigade. In connection with the death of the individual entrepreneur, it was liquidated.

The telegram channel claims that the security forces tortured Upanov after the detention. He was broken by the ribs and the spine, traces of suffocation remained on his neck, and on the rest of the body - hematomas. A few hours later, as a result of torture, according to ADAT1, the man died. Sources of the publication claim that an investigation is being conducted in this case, "but the security forces are trying to shift it as much as possible under an accident, and in which case they call Kasuyev a terrorist." Later ADAT1
Published
Video with the inspection of the body of Upanov, where and by whom it was removed is unknown.

“Four ribs are broken, bruises everywhere: on the arms, on the legs, on the back; The spine is broken, the kidneys are repulsed, ”says the man who takes off the video.

The same voice suggests that the security forces staged Upanov’s suicide in order to “hide their crime”. "Agency"
Contacted
With the mother of Upanova Taisa: according to her, her son could not do anything with himself, because he was a Muslim.

Uphanova’s mother also said that Askhab died in the police department a few hours after the detention. She herself at that time was in Rostov and learned about what had happened from the daughter -in -law. The man initially did not consider the arrival of his wife to be necessary, because he was sure that the security forces had no reason not to let him go. He later called his wife, said that he was rude to the police, and asked to come to the department. Two hours later, when the wife of Upanova got to the department, the security forces said that "her husband is no more."

“As not, I recently talked to him on the phone,” the woman answered.

“I talked, but now you won’t,” the employee allegedly answered.

Taisa Upanova assures that her son could not be involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. The family buried Askhab in Chechnya.

Unknown

The Investigative Committee, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB did not comment on information about the death of Askhab Upanov.
For what exactly he was detained and whether he was really considered involved in the terrorist attack in Crocus, is still unknown
. The man’s mother did not tell reporters where her son was specifically detained and which police station was taken to.

The next day after the attack, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov reported to Vladimir Putin about the detention of 11 people. At this point, at least ten suspects of involvement in the attack were arrested.

March 24 in a pre -trial detention center for two months
Sent
Four natives of Tajikistan, suspected of performing a terrorist attack: Dalerjon Mirzoev, Rachabalizoda Saidrakami Murodali, Muhammadobrafi Zokirchonovich Fayzov and Shamsidin Fariduni. The next
day
- The last owner of the white Renault, on which, according to the investigation, the terrorists came to Crocus City Hall, Dilovar Islomov, as well as his brother Aminchon and the father of Israel. After another
day
- Alisher Kasimov, who rented an apartment to terrorists.

Lutfullo Nazrimad

24-year-old citizen of Tajikistan Lutfullo Nazrimad
Arrested
March 29. The man is not married, he has no children, he does not work. He talked with the judge through the translator. According to investigators, Nazrimad "participated in the financing scheme of terrorists." He partially pleaded guilty, but the essence of the prosecution has not yet been announced.

On March 25, Nazrimad was arrested for 15 days under an administrative article on petty hooliganism. According to the court, Lutfullo refused to provide documents to the police who checked people for involvement in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. In the court order
It is said
that he was obscenely expressed, behaved defiantly, and also resisted the police.

Lutfullo Nazrimad. Photo: press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow

Yakubjon Yusufzoda

April 1 court
Arrested
The tenth of the criminal case of a terrorist attack in the Crocus Yakubjon Yusufzoda. The suspect is 25 years old, he is a native of Tajikistan, he has a wife and three children. He worked as a builder.

“On March 25, Yakubjoni Yusufzod saw a patrol car and decided to run. Police officers demanded him to stop, but Yakubjoni did not listen to them and tried to hide, and during the detention he was active. During interrogation, he said that he was running away from the police because he was afraid that he would be attracted for violating migration rules, ” -
He wrote
Shot (
Spelling and punctuation in the quote are preserved.
-
Approx. Ed.
).

After that, he was arrested for 12 days for disobedience to the police, and only then they began to suspect of involvement in the attack. Consequence
He thinks
that a few days before the Yusufzod attack transferred the money to the accomplices of the crime “to ensure their residence”, and “part of the funds was transferred to one of the performers after the commission of the crime”.

Yakubjon Yusufzoda. Photo: Eugene Reasonable / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press