Among the suspects in the preparation of the assassination attempt on Simonyan there are minors

There are minors among those suspected of plotting the assassination of journalists Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Moscow Basmanny Court. Earlier, the investigation petitioned for the arrest of six people detained in connection with the assassination attempt.

“Among the six suspects in the attempt on Sobchak and Simonyan there are minors. For this reason, photo and video filming by the press service of the court will not be carried out,” reported in a court.

Earlier today FSB informed, which prevented the preparation by the Ukrainian special services of the assassination of the editor-in-chief of the RT television channel Margarita Simonyan. According to the service, Kyiv also planned the murder of journalist Ksenia Sobchak. Members of the Paragraph-88 neo-Nazi group were detained in Moscow and the Ryazan region, they conducted reconnaissance “at the addresses of work and residence” Simonyan and Sobchak, the report said. For each murder, the detainees, according to them, should have received 1.5 million rubles. A Kalashnikov assault rifle and 90 cartridges for it, knives, brass knuckles, rubber truncheons, handcuffs, chevrons, as well as flags with Nazi symbols and Nazi literature were confiscated from those preparing the assassination.

“The FSB, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee, detained a group that, by order of Ukraine, was preparing my murder. Followed me, knew all my addresses. We work, brothers! Simonyan commented on the incident.