2024-03-25 07:29:00
Four men accused of participating in the massacre that occurred on Friday in a Moscow concert hall, where 137 people died, They were taken into custody on Sunday and their faces were released, as Russia went through a day of national mourning after the attack claimed by the Islamic State. ISIS, for its part, shared a video of the attack, with the terrorists’ faces censored.
The four suspects were accused of terrorism, according to the Basmanny district court in Moscow, and face life in prison. His detention is set until May 22, but may be extended, depending on the trial date. The first to appear before the judge were Saidakrami Rachabalizoda y Dalerdjon Barotovich MirzoyevRachabalizoda, 30, is married, has one child, has no criminal record and also admitted his guilt.
Saidakrami Rachabalizoda Dalerdjon Barotovich Mirzoyev
The other two suspects in the terrorist attack are Shamsidin Faridunia Moscow factory worker and father of an eight-month-old baby, and Muhammadsabir Faizovsingle, unemployed hairdresser, 19 years old and dressed in a white coat. The four defendants, who used Tajik language translation services, showed signs of injuries, especially bruises on the face. Fayzov was even transferred to the ward in a medical wheelchair and accompanied by emergency services.
President Vladimir Putin vowed to punish those behind the “barbaric terrorist attack” and on Saturday said the four gunmen had been arrested while trying to flee to Ukraine. kyiv strongly denied any connection to the attack. “They tried to escape and They were heading towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary information, a window had been prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the state border,” Putin said in a televised speech.
Shamsidin Fariduni Muhammadsobir Faizov
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyin his own evening speech on Saturday, rejected any suggestion that kyiv had been involved. Washington also dismissed any suggestion that kyiv had been involved: “ISIS is solely responsible for this attack,” said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson.
Late on Sunday, the French Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal announced that his country was returning to a state of maximum security alert after the attack, given “the threats that weigh on our country” and also attributed the attack to the Islamic State. By contrast, Putin made no public reference to the Islamic State group’s claims of responsibility.
A projection of whooping cranes and the text “We Cry on 03/22/2024” in front of Crocus City Hall
In total, Russian authorities reported the arrest of 11 people, but there were no statements about the other 7 suspects. Russia’s Investigative Committee released a video of the four identified men being dragged in Moscow and claimed they were all foreign nationals. At least 137 people, including three children, died on Friday at night when gunmen broke into Crocus City Hall in the northern Moscow suburb of Krasnogorsk and then set the building on fire. It was the deadliest attack in Europe claimed by ISIS.
In addition, It was the deadliest attack in Russia since the Beslan school massacre in 2004., which left 334 dead (186 of them children) and more than 700 injured. On Sunday, shock and pain reigned in the streets of the capital. “It’s a tragedy. It destroyed me morally,” she told the AFP Ruslana Baranovskaya, 35 years old. “People don’t smile… Everyone feels the loss,” said Valentina Karenina, 73, a retiree standing on a street next to Red Square. Museums, theaters and cinemas across the country closed and billboards were replaced with commemorative posters.
Mourners continued to flock to the concert hall in northwest Moscow to lay flowers in tribute to the victims. More than 5,000 people donated blood after the attack, authorities said, and many stood in long lines outside clinics. Abroad, people left floral tributes in front of Russian embassies in solidarity and several allies called for the country to lift the moratorium on death penaltywhich sparked concern among Kremlin critics.
Pope Francis condemned the “vile terrorist attack” in Russia: “Inhuman acts that offend God”
The chilling video released by ISIS (sensitive images)
The Islamic State group published on Saturday in Telegram what The attack was “carried out by four ISIS fighters, armed with machine guns, a pistol, knives and incendiary bombs” as part of “the furious war” with “the countries fighting against Islam“. According to the intelligence group SITE, a video that lasts approximately a minute and a halfapparently filmed by the terrorists, was posted on social media accounts typically used by ISIS.
The video, which appears to have been filmed from the lobby of the concert hall, shows several individuals with censored faces and distorted voices, firing assault rifles at inert bodies scattered on the ground, with an incipient fire in the background. They celebrate shouting “Allah is great” and one of them orders: “I came quickly. Bring the machine gun. Kill them and have no mercy.”.
Russian investigators said that after walking through the theater, shooting at spectators, The gunmen set the building on fire, trapping many inside. In the video you can also see how one of the terrorists attacks an already wounded man and, with a knife, slowly slits his throatuntil the victim turns around.
The agency TASS explained in a statement released via Telegram what most of the deaths had been from gunshot wounds and asphyxiation, as a result of the fire in the room. ISIS later published an image of those allegedly responsible for the massacre, in which four people can be seen wearing caps, scarves covering most of their faces, and pixelated eyes, while pointing to a large Islamic State flag hanging behind them.
In parallel, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations published on Sunday a video of machinery arriving at Crocus City Hall that would serve to dismantle damaged structures and remove debris. 29 of the hundreds of victims have already been identified, in a slow process complicated by the fire. Health officials said there are 101 people still in the hospital, of which 40 were in “critical” or “extremely critical” condition.
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