He also said that two days before the attack, on March 20, Mirzoev called his mother and said that he was going to return to Tajikistan due to lack of work in Novosibirsk, where he was temporarily registered.

Now the United States is convincing its allies that the Afghan branch of the Islamic State* is behind the terrorist attack in the Moscow region, but the father of the terrorist Mirzoev claims that his son prayed “when he wanted” and did not even read the Koran.

As an RT source previously reported, among those detained in Tajikistan were relatives and acquaintances of Dalerjon Mirzoev, who shot at Crocus City Hall.

* “Islamic State” (IS) is an organization recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2014.