Doctoral student and Russian intelligence expert on whom he has worked for around fifteen years, Cyril Gelibter analyzes the attack against the Crocus City Hall in Moscow.
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LE FIGARO.- Was there a failure by the Russian intelligence services?
Cyril GELIBTER.-
For two years, significant personnel from the Russian intelligence and security services have been focused on the Ukrainian conflict, to the detriment of other issues.
However, through various information it was noted that the FSB (in charge of internal security, Editor's note) was also continuing to hunt down terrorists from the
“Islamic State”
(IS) group.
At the beginning of March, this service announced the dismantling of an ISIS-K cell (IS subsidiary in Afghanistan) in the Kaluga region (in central Russia), which intended to attack a synagogue.
On March 7, the American embassy in Russia warned of a risk of attack
“in the next 48 hours”
in concert halls or gathering places…
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