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On the front page of the press, reactions to the attack in Moscow on Friday evening, which left at least 137 dead. According to the Russian-speaking opposition site
Meduza
, four men accused of being the perpetrators of this attack were detained yesterday by a Moscow court. These four defendants showed obvious signs of torture, one having his ear cut off, another with a bruised face and yet another being brought unconscious on a stretcher. According to the Russian authorities, who have still not mentioned the claim of the Islamic State group, these four men were arrested while they were heading "towards the Russian-Ukrainian border". Explanations brushed aside by Russian opponent Gary Kasparov, now exiled, and recently placed on the list of people declared “terrorists and extremists”. In a column published by the American daily
Wall Street Journal
, Kasparov warns that "we must not believe" the Kremlin - whose only concern would be to "exploit this crisis to the maximum, at the national and international level", in the aftermath of presidential sham which kept Vladimir Putin in power. The Kremlin, whose security “bankruptcy” is exposed by this attack, according to
The Moscow Times
. The independent English-speaking daily for its part considers "ridiculous" "the visible security presence" in Moscow, where "the superficial appearance of force does not, in reality, guarantee the safety of people".
The attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow is also on the front page of French daily newspapers.
The Cross
sees Russia between "mourning and denial", with a majority of Russians believing in the guilt of the Ukrainians. A reaction fueled by Vladimir Putin himself, according to
Le Figaro
. The newspaper also criticizes the Russian intelligence and security forces, "spectacularly failing for a police state which records all its citizens and tracks down the slightest wrong word." Services obsessed with Ukraine, to the point of refusing to listen to the warning of their American counterparts, treated as “intimidation”.
Le Figaro
, which evokes "the temptation" of Vladimir Putin to stick to "the single and convenient enemy, the anti-Russian West and its armed wing, the Ukrainian "Nazi" regime", believes that Vladimir Putin is facing to the need to "make a fateful decision for the future of one's country: either remain in this phantasmagoria, or accept the more complex reality, in which Moscow finds itself in the same boat as Paris or New York".
Yesterday evening, France raised the Vigipirate plan to its highest level: emergency attack, and
Libération
is worried about a possible "return" of mass attacks in Europe, particularly in France, where the Olympic Games are beginning in 4 months. According to Libé, European intelligence services are "closely following" the resurgence of the Islamic State group and its subsidiary in Khorasan, in Central Asia, which has already struck twice in two and a half months, last Friday, but also at the beginning of January, with an anti-Shiite attack, which left nearly 100 dead in Kerman, Iran.
Le Monde
explains that the return of the Taliban to Kabul in the summer of 2021 reduced the scope of action of the Islamic State group in Afghanistan, but that the organization has since spread to the countries of northern Afghanistan , particularly in Tajikistan. France 24 journalist Wassim Nasr, quoted by
Le Figaro
, recalls, for his part, that the Islamic State group has many grievances against Russia, "former adversary in Afghanistan and Chechnya, ally of Bashar el-Assad in Syria , and today facing IS in the Sahel.
As for Syria,
The Wall Street Journal
warns of the existence of a "time bomb" and a possible "resurgence" of the Islamic State group in Syrian detention and refugee camps, particularly in the Al-Hol camp, which is located in northeastern Syria, where hundreds of families of militants from the organization are still crowded and where a “recent security operation” made it possible to discover a stock of weapons , and dozens of members of the Islamic State group.
Change of continent. In Brazil, three figures from Rio de Janeiro, including a federal deputy and the former local police chief, were arrested. They are suspected of being the sponsors of the assassination of Marielle Franco, shot dead in March 2018. The two alleged assassins of the municipal councilor, a figure of the Carioca left, had already been arrested in 2019, but the sponsors of the murder remained in the dark. According to
A Folha de São Paulo
, Marielle Franco was killed because she was considered "an obstacle" to Rio's militias and land grabbing.
O Globo
salutes the fact that Marielle Franco "has never been forgotten, in the 2202 days since her assassination". “What Marielle gave to the country, even after her death,” writes the Rio newspaper, “is the hope that impunity will not end up winning out. Even in a state like Rio, dominated by the criminal underworld militias and all their direct links with power, impunity has been overcome.” “This is the extent of Marielle’s courage.”
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