Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
"However, Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter Extremism Project at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT), urged caution in ruling out a wider network. “Obviously, everything is possible to do by yourself—you can rent a car by yourself, you can buy gas canisters by yourself, you can build an explosive device by yourself,” he explained. “But all these things in combination give the possibility of a wider support network, who were not in the car but helped the man prepare, and that is really important to determine,” Schindler told German media outlet DW.”"
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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