Roskomnadzor assessed the need to block Telegram – Kommersant

Roskomnadzor does not see the need to block the Telegram messenger, through which one of those accused of committing a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall communicated with a possible customer. The press service of the department reported this TASS.

Before this, the government had no plans to limit the operation of the messenger in the country said press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. However, he added that Telegram founder Pavel Durov should pay attention to the fact that terrorists use the messenger.

Roskomnadzor also reported about blocking 11 Telegram channels that published fake news about supposedly new terrorist attacks and called for terrorist activities.

Shamsidin Fariduni, one of the alleged terrorists, admitted during interrogation that he received instructions via Telegram from the “preacher’s assistant,” who offered him to carry out a terrorist attack for a fee of 500 thousand rubles. Source “RIA Novosti” reportedthat those accused of committing a terrorist attack could have been recruited through the Telegram channel of the Afghan wing of the Islamic State (a terrorist group banned in Russia) “Voice of Khorasan”. Now the channel, according to the agency, has been deleted.

Eight people were arrested in connection with the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, which occurred on the evening of March 22. According to the latest data, 143 people were killed and 360 injured during the terrorist attack on the concert complex.

Read more about the progress of the investigation into the terrorist attack in the material “Conversation shortened”.

Evgeny Belousov