Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov said in his Telegram channel that he urged law enforcers to emphasize countering "radical ideology coming from European countries." "These shaitans are sitting in Europe, recruiting our children. Communicating on the Internet, inciting them to burn cars, kill relatives. Motivating them by saying that they will go to paradise," Grozny Inform quotes the Chechen head as saying.
Kadyrov also, as his post says, "called on every Chechen to be especially vigilant towards his closest relatives." Meanwhile, the Kavkaz.Realii publication, which translated Kadyrov's speech from Chechen (via this video), reported that he threatened to kill the Islamists' relatives.
"If [the suspect] is connected to shaitans - we should punish his entire clan. This clan must know that they are fully responsible..... And whoever attacks a brother [meaning a policeman], he must realize that blood feud will kill everyone - father, brother, uncle..... I appeal to the Chechen people - know what your children are doing. You all know the symptoms of Wahhabism, if you see it, report it immediately to the district police. It is better that we stop him in time than that we kill you, your son and your brother later," Kadyrov said.
On June 23, several militants - according to unofficial reports, Islamist sympathizers - attacked two Orthodox churches, a synagogue and a traffic police post in Derbent and Makhachkala. Twenty-one people were killed, including 16 police officers and a Rosgvardiya officer. The militants were killed. Among them was at least one son of Magomed Omarov, the head of Dagestan's Sergokala district. After the terrorist attack, the official was removed from his post and arrested.
Meanwhile, the Telegram channel 1ADAT, which is run by Chechen opposition activists from abroad, reports that police raids began in Chechnya on June 25: "Our sources from the security services say that the entire staff of the Kadyrov law enforcement agencies have been brought out for raids. There are a lot of young officers aged between 18 and 20".
In January, Ramzan Kadyrov said at a meeting of the Chechen government that in the event of the murder of a government official, a blood feud should be declared against the killer's family.In the evening of June 23, groups of militants attacked Orthodox churches and synagogues in Derbent and Makhachkala. As a result, 21 people were killed, including 16 security forces.
