Case on terror act in Pyatigorsk sent to court

The case against six residents of Dagestan, accused of involvement in the terror act in Pyatigorsk in December 2013, has been sent to the court.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 27, 2013, a car was blown up in front of the GIBDD (traffic police) building in Pyatigorsk, killing three occasional passersby. The explosion was recognized as a terror act. On January 10, 2014, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported the detention of Murad Ataev, Ramazan Khalizov, Vladimir Khalizov, Shamil Abdulazizov, Shamil Gazimagomedov and Magomed Ibragimov as suspects.

Today, Vladimir Markin, the spokesman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation, said about the completion of the investigation with respect to these persons.

He added that in Pyatigorsk the above terrorists triggered a bomb having the power of about 60 kilograms of TNT (trotyl) equivalent, and killed three persons and wounded two others, the RIA "Novosti" reports.

The above defendants are accused of involvement in a terrorist community, participation in a gang, a terror act, and illegal circulation of explosives.

Investigators have established that one of terrorists' aims was to intimidate the authorities of the Russian Federation, so that they stopped persecuting religious extremists operating in Northern Caucasus, the spreading of radical Islam by them and, finally, withdraw the subjects of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) from Russia, the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" writes with reference to Markin.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.