Newspaper Kommersant names Russian arrested for preparing a terrorist act in Norway

The Russian citizen arrest for preparing a terrorist attack in Oslo, Norway has been named as seventeen-year-old Isu B, reported newspaper Kommersant on Wednesday, citing sources. The suspect’s last name has not been named, because he is a minor.

According to the newspaper, the detainee grew up in a family of immigrants from Ingushetia, Russia. Earlier, it was reported that the suspect immigrated to Norway in 2010 together with his family and applied for refugee status. The family settled in the border municipality of Vadso, where there is a large Russian-speaking community.

Kommersant’s source, a member of the Caucasian diaspora of Norway, explained that the father of a young man was sick and that he did not qualify for medical treatment in Norway. When Isu’s parents returned to Russia, the teenager stayed in Norway.

Ingushetia’s Interior Ministry declined to comment on the suspect’s identity, noting that the agency did “not know anything about the young man’s family”. Norwegian authorities have not been in touch with Russian law enforcement agencies.

On April 9, it became known that a Russian had been arrested for planning a terrorist attack in Oslo, Norway. The young man had a box on him in which investigators found a low-grade explosive device.

The police looking into possible connections between the suspect and Uzbekistan native Rahmat Akilov, who stole a truck in Stockholm and rammed it into a crowd on April 7. Four people were killed as a result of the terrorist attack in the Swedish capital.