FSB officers prevented a terrorist attack plotted by a supporter of the Right Sector (banned in Russia) in Cherkessk against servicemen and law enforcement officers, the FSB Public Relations Center told TASS on Friday.
"As a result of the measures carried out in Cherkessk of the Karachay-Cherkessia Republic, a local resident, a Russian citizen born in 1992 (adherent of neo-Nazi ideology), who intended to commit terrorist acts against employees of republican law enforcement agencies and servicemen under the auspices of the Right Sector organization, was identified and detained. The criminal planned to commit a sabotage terrorist act and further departure for the territory of Ukraine upon the instructions of the coordinators," reported the PRC.
Two improvised explosive devices with a capacity of about 3 kilograms of TNT each, components for making IEDs, schemes of approaches to the buildings of the prosecutor's office and the military commissariat were found at his place of residence, as well as correspondence with active members of Right Sector, exposing his criminal intentions and symbols of the extremist organization. The investigative unit of FSB initiated a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 30, paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 "Preparation for an act of terrorism," Part 2 of Article 282.2 "Participation in an extremist organization," of the Criminal Code. The detainee made a confession.
According to the agency, he was planning to commit a terrorist attack on the prosecutor's office and the military enlistment office in Cherkessk. After committing the terrorist attack, he was to leave on the train Nevinomyssk-Belgorod. "There I was to be taken to the Right Sector," the detainee explained.
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Based on materials TASS