SNEERING Vladimir Putin ignored British and US warnings of a terror attack — on the day jihadists staked out the venue where they would kill at least 137 people.
Western intelligence agencies told Russia of an imminent IS threat two weeks before Friday’s horror at Crocus City Hall.
AFPVladimir Putin ignored British and US warnings before the Crocus City Hall terror attack[/caption]
Footage showed the moment the masked gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall on Friday night
Putin, 71, received the intelligence on March 7 — the same day terror suspect Shamsuddin Fariddun did a recce at the concert hall.
A photographer taking pictures of visitors snapped the fiend, from Tajikistan, and later recognised him on TV.
A day later, it was revealed the US and UK embassies had issued warnings of an attack on “large gatherings” in Moscow.
Analysts believe it caused the terrorists to delay their plans.
Three days before the attack on the concert in the western Krasnogorsk suburb of Moscow, arrogant Putin said of the warnings: “It resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilise our society.”
The pig-headed tyrant yesterday paid tribute at a church outside Moscow to the victims of the attack.
Last night two suspects, Dalerdzhon Barotovich Mirzoyev and Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, were marched blindfolded into court.
Grisly videos showed Putin’s spooks feeding one of the suspects his own sliced off ear.
Four suspects and at least seven others were arrested.
ReutersMore footage of the suspected shooters during their interrogation[/caption]
ReutersMasked officers aggressively pulled the men through corridors of Russia’s Investigative Committee[/caption]
Two of the suspected gunmen were filmed bound and blindfolded in front of Russia’s Investigative Committee for Interrogation.
IS offshoot ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack but after the suspects were caught, Putin claimed the gang had been “on their way to Ukraine” and had a prepared “crossing point”.
British and US officials yesterday said there was no evidence of Ukrainian involvement.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky thanked those who refused to “let Russia deceive the world through propaganda and blackmail”.
ReutersDalerdzhon Mirzoyev is a suspect in the vile shooting[/caption]
ReutersSaidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda is another involved in the attack at the Crocus City Hall[/caption]
APFootage from Saturday showed the detainees with bloodied faces[/caption]
A map of the attack