A trial of an ISIS member for attacking police officers has begun in Moscow.
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The Moscow City Court began considering the case of 26-year-old IG member Kunjumov Sheravgan, accused of attacking a traffic police crew with Molotov cocktails near the Shchelkovskaya metro station on August 27, 2025.
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Kunjumov Sheravgan is accused of encroaching on the lives of law enforcement officers on August 27, 2025.
The Moscow City Court has begun to consider the criminal case of 26-year-old member of the Islamic State (IS, ISIS; a terrorist organization banned in Russia) Kunjumov Sheravgan, who committed an armed attack on police officers near the Shchelkovskaya metro station on August 27, 2025. Lenta.ru was informed about this by the press service of the capital’s courts.
The man is charged with an attempt on the life of law enforcement officers out of revenge for their professional activities.
According to investigators, a member of a terrorist organization motivated by religious, political and ideological hostility on the morning of August 27, 2025, threw two Molotov cocktails at the traffic police crew on duty at the Shchelkovskaya metro station.
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