The site of the attack on the police post in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya. Screenshot of the video by the Grozny TV channel http://newsvideo.su/video/10977463

03 July 2019, 10:29

Former law enforcers don't believe in IS' role in attacking policeman in Chechnya

The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation by the court, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the police post in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya for the sake of self-promotion; and the incident itself was hardly a terror act, retired law enforcers believe.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that during an attack on the police post in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, committed on July 1 a policeman, who had been sent from the Kemerovo Region, was stabbed to death. According to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the attacker stabbed the policeman, threw a grenade and was killed by return fire. Later, law enforcers informed that the attacker was Zelimkhan Musaev, a local resident.

Sergey Goncharov, the president of the International Association of Veterans of the "Alpha" Anti-Terror Unit, doubts that the attack was a terror act. "I think this is a domestic problem; or the attacker had a mental problem," he said.

Gennady Gudkov, a retired FSB Colonel and a former State Duma MP, also believes that the attack was not a terror act. "Attacking a policeman with a knife is not a terror act. Obviously, it's people's reaction to law enforcement structures ... In Russia, many people hate the police," he said.

Mr Gudkov acknowledged the presence of Islamic radicals in the Caucasus, but believes that this is due not to the activity of Muslim preachers, but to "low incomes and education quality."

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on July 2, 2019 at 08:53 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: CK correspondents

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