When he arrived at a Moscow court, in the glass cage reserved for the accused, one of the suspects had a haggard look and a swollen eye.
His pale face, covered in bruises, seems void of all emotion.
No one took the care to remove the plastic bag that surrounds his neck, a crude vestige of a particularly violent torture session.
Like the three other alleged perpetrators of the bloodiest attack claimed by the Islamic State in Europe, the assailant appears to have suffered particularly grueling physical abuse since his arrest.
In the images broadcast by the court, three of the handcuffed suspects are brought into the courtroom bent in half by police officers.
The fourth arrives unconscious in a wheelchair.
In previous videos of their arrest released on Saturday by investigators, three of them appear with bloody faces.
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