Moscow concert terrorists ‘were tortured by neo-Nazi Russian officer’: Soldier who cut off killer’s ear ‘wore patch supporting far-right group’

The ISIS terrorist whose ear was cut off and force-fed was tortured by Russian military officers wearing patches linked to neo-Nazi ideology.

Terrorist suspect Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda, one of four men accused of killing nearly 140 people at a concert in Moscow on Friday, was captured and tortured by Russian authorities as he tried to flee Russia after helping to carry out ISIS’s deadliest attack on Russia in years.

But photos shared on Nazi-linked Telegram channels have revealed that the military officer who apparently cut off his ear and tried to force him to eat it was wearing a variant of a Black Sun patch.

A photo shared on the Nazi-linked Telegram channel ‘TopaZ Says’ shows a Russian soldier holding a short, bloody knife that appears to match the knife used to cut off Rachabalizoda’s ear, in images too gruesome for MailOnline to share .

The knife can be seen next to a partially obscured gold and black stain. While the center is obscured by the smiling face of a young man, the stems of the patch are still visible.

The patch appears to indicate a Black Sun variant.

The Black Sun, according to the Anti-Defamation League, has been used by neo-Nazis and other white supremacists as a symbol, after it was used in Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler’s brownshirts, the SS, and the Nazi Party in general.

It was first used in a castle owned by Heinrich Himmler that served as an SS operations center.

Russian authorities have brutalized the four Moscow massacre suspects after they were all captured over the weekend.

So far, two of them have pleaded guilty to terrorism after all four were charged.

While ISIS has twice claimed responsibility for the attack, Russian authorities attempted to discredit direct claims made by the terrorist group and instead appeared to blame the attack on the West, after it emerged that the United States attempted to warn Russia. about the massacre weeks before. happened.

In an article published in the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova disputed ISIS’s claims of responsibility.

‘Attention: a question for the White House: Are you sure it is ISIS? Could you think about that again? she wrote.

Zakharova said the United States was spreading a “bogeyman” version of the Islamic State to cover its “wards” in Kiev and reminded readers that Washington supported “mujahideen” fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s. .

President Vladimir Putin has not publicly mentioned the Islamist militant group in relation to the attackers, who he said had been trying to escape to Ukraine.

Putin said some people on “the Ukrainian side” had been willing to force the gunmen across the border. Ukraine has denied any involvement in the attack and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has accused Putin of trying to deflect blame for the concert hall attack by referring to Ukraine.