- Title: Russian metro bombing suspect appears in court
- Date: 18th April 2017
- Summary: MOSCOW, RUSSIA (APRIL 18, 2017) (REUTERS) **** WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **** MEN STANDING OUTSIDE BASMANNY COURT BUILDING SIGN READING (Russian): "BASMANNY DISTRICT COURT" RUSSIAN FLAG POLICE VAN ARRIVING INTO COURT YARD COURT WINDOWS SUSPECT, ABROR AZIMOV, GETTING OUT OF VAN AND BEING ESCORTED BY POLICE OFFICERS INTO COURT POLICE ESCORTING AZIMOV ALONG CORRIDOR TO COURT ROOM PAST MEDIA GUARDS AT DOOR AZIMOV HIDING HIS FACE IN DEFENDANT'S CAGE POLICE STANDING AZIMOV HIDING FACE BEHIND BARS PHOTOGRAPHER TAKING PICTURES MEDIA VARIOUS OF AZIMOV LISTENING TO JUDGE (SOUNDBITE) (Russian) UNIDENTIFIED JUDGE OF BASMANNY COURT, SAYING (OVERLAID WITH PICTURES OF AZIMOV STANDING LISTENING): "(The court) ruled to keep the suspect, Azimov Abror Okhranovich, in custody for one month, 16 days, in other words until June 3 of this year." MEDIA IN CORRIDOR AZIMOV ESCORTED BY POLICE FROM COURT ROOM CAMERAS
- Embargoed: 2nd May 2017 16:25
- Keywords: Russia St Petersburg attack metro bombing court organiser Azimov
- Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- City: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
- Country: Russia
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA0016CXFHON
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Moscow's Basmanny court ruled on Tuesday (April 18) to keep Abror Azimov, the man Russian investigators say orchestrated a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro in custody for a month after a preliminary hearing.
Russian investigators said that before the April 3 attack, the suspected suicide bomber, Akbarzhon Jalilov, had spoken by telephone with Azimov, who the investigators said was helping mastermind the attack from a Moscow suburb.
At the hearing in Moscow, the suspect, Azimov, said he had participated in the preparation of the attack but only indirectly.
Earlier in the court hearing, a state investigator told the court that Azimov had confessed to having taking part in preparations for the attack, but the suspect said he had not confessed to that.
Since the attack, Russian authorities have detained nine people suspected of involvement. All are originally from Central Asia, a region of five mainly Muslim states that border Afghanistan, Iran and China.
Abror Azimov is originally from the city of Jalal-Abad, in the Central Asian state of Kyrgyzstan. His wife said on Tuesday that Azimov and his brother, Akrom, had been working in a sushi restaurant in the Moscow region. He had been due to return home to Kyrgyzstan in April, but did not make the trip. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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