Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
Introductory remarks
Gabriele Scheel
Head of Division “International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption”, Federal Foreign Office of Germany
Part 1: Methods of misuse
Dr. Thorsten Hindrichs
Research Associate, Department of Musicology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Maximilian Kreter
PhD candidate at the Hannah Arendt Institute for Totalitarianism Studies e. V. (HAIT) and doctoral fellow at the Centre for Analysis of the Radical Right (CARR)
Alexander Ritzmann
Senior Advisor, Counter Extremism Project
Part 2: Government countermeasures, challenges, and role of industry
Michael Hertzberg
United States Department of the Treasury
Millie Radovic and Neil Everitt
Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Risk, Trends and Methods Group
Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.
Fact:
On April 3, 2017, the day Vladimir Putin was due to visit the city, a suicide bombing was carried out in the St. Petersburg metro, killing 15 people and injuring 64. An al-Qaeda affiliate, Imam Shamil Battalion, claimed responsibility.
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