© Reuters. Muhammadsobir Fayzov, a suspect within the taking pictures assault on the Crocus Metropolis Corridor live performance venue, sits in a medical transport chair behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants earlier than a court docket listening to on the Basmanny district court docket in Moscow, Russia Marc
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By Filipp Lebedev
(Reuters) -4 suspected gunmen have been arrested and positioned in pre-trial detention over Friday’s assault on the Crocus Metropolis live performance corridor close to Moscow that killed at the very least 137 individuals.
All have been recognized by Russian media as residents of Tajikistan. All bore seen accidents once they appeared at a Moscow court docket on Sunday. The Kremlin declined to touch upon Monday when requested if they’d been tortured.
MUHAMMADSOBIR FAYZOV
Fayzov, 19, is the youngest of the detainees. Russian media mentioned he had been working as a barber in a city northeast of Moscow.
On Saturday, a number of Telegram channels revealed a video displaying him being questioned whereas mendacity on a hospital mattress. Images circulating on-line on Sunday appeared to point out Fayzov with one among his eyes lacking. He was taken to court docket in a wheelchair and the listening to was closed to journalists, in contrast to these for the opposite three suspects. He was photographed sitting within the wheelchair along with his head slumped backwards and each eyes closed, apparently oblivious to what was occurring round him.
DALERDZHON MIRZOYEV
Mirzoyev is 32 and has 4 kids.
In a video of his interrogation, he mentioned by means of an interpreter that he lived “in a hostel close to the motorway” with one other man, Mukhamad, and that 10-12 days earlier they’d purchased a automotive “for work” from somebody known as Abdullo. He was not seen talking in regards to the assault.
Mirzoyev often flew from Moscow to Tajikistan and again, in accordance with leaked air journey information. In 2011 he was prosecuted for violating immigration guidelines, in accordance with a court docket database.
Images from the courtroom confirmed him with cuts and heavy bruising to his face.
SHAMSIDIN FARIDUNI
Fariduni, 25, mentioned in an interrogation video revealed on social media that he had arrived from Turkey on March 4. He was trembling whereas being questioned by the facet of a street, along with his fingers tied behind his again. He mentioned that he had “shot individuals” in Crocus Metropolis Corridor “for cash”, having been provided 500,000 roubles ($5,400) by an individual he didn’t establish.
{A photograph} revealed later by Gray Zone, a Telegram channel that’s near the Wagner mercenary group, confirmed Fariduni mendacity on the ground along with his trousers rolled right down to his knees and somebody standing on his legs.
When he appeared in court docket on Sunday, Fariduni had a big bruise on the left facet of his face.
SAIDAKRAMI RACHABALIZODA
Rachabalizoda, 30, was proven being overwhelmed and abused in a collection of movies revealed by Gray Zone. In a single clip, a person in camouflage uniform cuts off a part of his proper ear and stuffs it within the suspect’s mouth. “You now have one ear left,” says a voice in one other video wherein Rachabalizoda is being interrogated. On Sunday he appeared in court docket with a big bandage round his proper ear and with bruises and caked blood on his face.
In 2018 Rachabalizoda was prosecuted and fined 2,500 roubles ($27) for a violation of immigration guidelines, in accordance with a court docket database.
NOTE – Reuters was in a position to confirm by evaluation of the photographs that the boys seen being interrogated within the photos and movies had been the identical males who appeared in court docket on Sunday.
