Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has announced new punishments for terrorism that target the families of those committing terrorist acts, a day after an attack in Grozny left 24 people dead.Kadyrov said on his Instagram account on December 5, "If a gunman in Chechnya kills a policeman or someone else, the gunman's family will be immediately evicted from Chechnya without the right to return, and their home will be razed down to the basement.
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Kadyrov continued, "The time when it was said that parents don't answer for the deeds of their sons or daughters is over. They will answer in Chechnya."
Kadyrov spoke after
Kadyrov claimed Akhmat Umarov, the brother of the late Chechen militant leader Doku Umarov, plotted the attack in Grozny. He said Umarov organized the attack by "deceiving the group of thugs who infiltrated Grozny" that there were some 400 gunmen already deployed there waiting to join the operation once the publishing house was captured.
Akhmat Umarov lives in Turkey. Kadyrov said Russian officials should "demand that Turkish authorities extradite him."
Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized members of Ukraine's government who, Lavrov charged, spoke positively about the attack. Lavrov called the Ukrainian lawmakers' comments of support "blasphemous and cynical" and said statements from those lawmakers about opening a "second front" in Chechnya could cause Russia to file a lawsuit.
Russian authorities have filed criminal cases against Ukrainian officials, but neither party has any authority to bring officials from the other country to court.