Kremlin has no data France allegedly shared information on Crocus terrorist attack

Emergencies April 05, 13:52

Earlier, Macron, commenting to journalists on a telephone conversation between French and Russian defense ministers Sebastien Lecornu and Sergey Shoigu, said that Paris considered it necessary to cooperate with all countries facing the terrorist threat

MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has no confirmation France allegedly shared with Russia data concerning the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

"I have no confirmation that any such data was provided," Peskov told the media.

In this way he commented on French President Emmanuel Macron’s remark Paris had some "useful information" about the terrorist attack.

Earlier, Macron, commenting to journalists on a telephone conversation between French and Russian defense ministers Sebastien Lecornu and Sergey Shoigu, said that Paris considered it necessary to cooperate with all countries facing the terrorist threat.

"We must work together with all those facing the terrorist threat. When we have data, we must have a technical exchange of information, this is our duty," the French leader stated. The phone conversation between Lecornu and Shoigu, said Macron, was held at the initiative of France in a gesture of solidarity with the Russian minister and with the aim to share information.

"I instructed the minister and the relevant services to conduct a technical exchange of information with their [Russian] counterparts to convey a message of solidarity and also because we had useful information, which I will not disclose here, about who was behind this terrorist attack," Macron said.

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack was carried out at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. According to the latest data, 144 people were killed and 551 others injured. Ten people have been arrested in the case of the terrorist attack, including four direct perpetrators. Russia’s Investigative Committee said that it had proved the perpetrators’ connections with Ukrainian nationalists.

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