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SNEERING Vladimir Putin ignored British and US warnings of a terror attack — on the day jihadists staked out the venue where they would kill at least 137 people.
Western intelligence agencies told Russia of an imminent IS threat two weeks before Friday’s horror at Crocus City Hall.
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Putin received the intelligence on March 7 — the same day terror suspect Shamsuddin Fariddun was seen on a recce at the concert hall.
A photographer taking pictures of visitors snapped the fiend, from Tajikistan, and later recognised him on TV.
A day later, it was revealed the US and UK embassies had issued warnings of an attack on “large gatherings” in Moscow.
Analysts believe it caused the terrorists to delay their plans.
But three days before the attack on the concert in the western Krasnogorsk suburb of Moscow, arrogant Putin said of the warnings:
“It resembles outright blackmail and the intention to intimidate and destabilise our society.”
Gunmen later stormed the concert, shooting gig-goers and setting fire to the building.
Russia’s FSB security forces said 11 people were quickly arrested, including the four main attackers.
The FSB yesterday released grisly videos of Putin spooks torturing suspects — presumably to show a tough response, but it follows the security services’ failure to see the attack coming.
One suspect is fed his own sliced-off ear.
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In another video, Fariddun is seen foaming at the mouth as he is apparently given electric shocks to his genitals.
Last night two suspects, Dalerdzhon Barotovich Mirzoyev and Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, were marched blindfolded into court.
Both appeared badly beaten.
IS offshoot ISIS-K claimed responsibility for the attack but Putin, who laid flowers for victims at a church yesterday, claimed the terrorists had been “on their way to Ukraine” and had a prepared “crossing point”.
Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky called Putin “scum” for trying to involve Kyiv and thanked those who refused to “let Russia deceive the world through propaganda and blackmail”.
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