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2024-08-01 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Prosecutor General Links Militant Attacks in Dagestan to Government Miscalculations
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[KavkazUzel] The militant attacks in Dagestan, like the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, occurred due to the authorities' miscalculations, which did not pay enough attention to countering terrorism, said Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov.

As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on June 23, militants attacked an Orthodox church and a synagogue in Derbent, and in Makhachkala - the Holy Dormition Cathedral and a traffic police post. As a result of the attack, 22 people were killed and 46 were injured. Investigators believe that the group whose members carried out the attacks was created by the son of the head of the Sergokalinsky District, Magomed Omarov.

The terrorist attacks in the Moscow region and Dagestan "have challenged the law enforcement system and the entire Russian society," said Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov at a meeting devoted to summing up the work of the prosecutor's office for the first six months of 2024.

"In many ways, this became possible due to mistakes made by authorized government bodies, which requires us to conduct inspections and respond to counter-terrorism at a fundamentally different level," Krasnov's words are quoted in a publication on the Prosecutor General's Office website.

Recall that the militant attacks in Dagestan could have been prevented if the security forces had guarded religious sites more carefully and paid more attention to preventive work, veterans of the special services interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" indicated. However, the security of religious sites in the republic was strengthened only the day after the militant attacks and deaths.

On June 24, the head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, announced that Magomed Omarov, whose two sons and nephew participated in the militant attack, had been dismissed from his post as head of the Sergokalinsky District. On June 25, Melikov announced an investigation into the personal files of officials and members of the Dagestan parliament.

The attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala were the first armed incidents in the republic in more than a year. At the same time, a number of incidents related to attacks on religious figures and religious buildings had occurred in Dagestan earlier.

On March 22, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, opened fire and set fire to the building. According to official data, 145 people were killed in the terrorist attack, and the FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. Eleven people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack.

On March 31, three people were detained in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk during a counter-terrorist operation. The detainees supplied money and weapons to the participants in the attack on Crocus City Hall, and also prepared the terrorist attack themselves, the FSB said. By April 4, the number of those arrested who, according to the security forces, were preparing the terrorist attack in Kaspiysk and supplied weapons to the attackers on Crocus City Hall had reached five.

The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. From 1999 until the events at Crocus City Hall, there had been five terrorist attacks there, each killing more than 40 people. Before the terrorist attack at Crocus, the largest number of fatalities, 130 people, was attributed to the seizure of the Theater Center on Dubrovka.
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