Monday, January 31, 2011

False bomb threats put in check by Russian security forces

.- A wave of false bomb threats plaguing the Russian capital, is a challenge to the security forces within a week of the massacre perpetrated by a suicide bomber in Moscow's Domodedovo airport. For the second consecutive day today the police had to evacuate the mall Vegas, located at kilometer 24 of the Moscow ring road, after it was found a note warning that an explosion on the premises.

Similar threats, none of which was confirmed, were found Saturday in two of the three major Moscow MEGA malls, which house more than 250 establishments. The evacuation of the public and staff of the shops causing huge traffic jams, according to the digital version of the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda", came to see scenes of panic.

In view of bomb threats, police instructed the administrations of large areas of the Russian capital of Moscow and the province of caution. The security service Karusel hypermarket, located in the town of Domodedovo, "misunderstood the message" error yesterday and evacuated to the public, said police spokesman in the province of Moscow, Yevgeny Guildéyev.

A 35-year Moscow was arrested after making five phone calls to "02", the emergency number for police to "signal" of imminent explosions in Moscow airports Domodedovo and Sheremetyevo, today told the Interfax news agency a source Ministry of Interior. The individual against whom criminal proceedings were brought by "false information about a terrorist act," was arrested yesterday at his home in a drunken state when he was preparing to make sixth call.

When he recovered from his drunkenness, said he wanted to see how the police reacted to a bomb threat. After the suicide terrorist attack in Domodedovo airport, which left 35 dead and nearly 200 injured, the Moscow authorities have stepped up security measures throughout the city, particularly in places of large public.

In the subway train in Moscow, where in March 2010 two suicide bombings carried out almost simultaneously in separate stations claimed 40 deaths, permanent heard warnings about the need to warn the driver of the presence of abandoned packages. The previous day the Committee of Education of Russia (CIR) announced that the suicide bomber on Monday detonated the bomb next to the arrivals lounge of Domodedovo International Airport has been identified but his name will be kept confidential to avoid interference research.

"We have established the identity of the suicide bomber was a man (...). 20 years, a resident of one of the republics (Russian) North Caucasus," said CIR spokesman Vladimir Markin. He said although they know the name of terrorism, the authorities can not make it public, as currently practiced a series of measures to identify and arrest the organizers of the attack.

According to Markin, the choice of the place where he committed the terrorist attack was not accidental, because the objective was to cause casualties, first among foreign nationals.

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