Key defendant in 2017 St Petersburg terrorist act case sentenced to life
Tuesday 10/December/2019 - 05:02 PM
A court in St. Petersburg sentenced the key defendant in the case
on a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg subway in April 2017 that killed 15
people, Abror Azimov, to life imprisonment, according to Sputnik on Tuesday.
"The court rules to sentence Abror Azimov to life
imprisonment", the presiding judge of the 2nd Western District Military
Court, Andrey Morozov, said.
An explosion hit a metro train between the Sennaya Ploshchad and
Tekhnologichesky Institut-2 stations in the St. Petersburg subway on 3 April,
2017, killing 16 people, including the perpetrator, and leaving about 50 people
wounded.
Another explosion, at the Ploshchad Vosstaniya station, was
prevented due to the timely detection of an improvised explosive device.
