MOSCOW, April 5. /TASS/. Moscow’s Basmanny Court has ruled that Muhammad Sharipzoda, the eleventh suspect in the case of the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert venue, be placed under arrest, the court’s press service told TASS.
"Moscow’s Basmanny District Court selected a restriction measure for Muhammad Zoir Sharipzoda, a native of the Republic of Tajikistan, who is charged with committing a crime under <…> Article 205 of Russia’s Criminal Code (terrorist act committed by an organized criminal group resulting in the death of a person). The court selected custody for 1 month 18 days, that is, until May 22, as a restriction measure," the press service said.
On the evening of March 22, four terrorists attacked the Crocus City Hall music venue in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, just outside the Moscow city limits. The current death toll is 144 and 551 more people were injured, according to the latest data. Later that day, the four gunmen - Dalerzhon Mirzoev, Saidakram Rachabalizoda, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Faizov - were detained in the Bryansk Region, southwest of Moscow, as they attempted to flee to Ukraine across the nearby border. Later, six individuals suspected of being complicit in the attack - brothers Aminchon and Dilovar Islomov and their father Isroil Islomov, as well as Alisher Kasimov, Lutfullo Nazrimada and Yakubzhoni Yusufzoda - were detained and placed under arrest. The investigators said that all of them knew about the planned terrorist attack and helped the gunmen.
The Russian Investigative Committee said that it had established the connection between the suspected terrorists and Ukrainian nationalists.