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The Chronology
The attack in the “Crocus City Hall” occurred before the start of the concert of the group “Picnic.” During the shooting in the building could be more than 6 thousand people – almost all tickets to the concert of the group “Picnic” were sold out. According to the latest data, the number of deaths in the attack is 137 people, more than 150 were injured.
At 19:55, the militants parked the car directly at the pedestrian crossing at the entrance to the exhibition center “Crocus Expo.” When they got out of the car, the terrorists immediately started shooting. Having passed about 300 meters and did not meet the resistance, the attackers reached the auditorium. The first shots were recorded in the west stairs of the hall. At 20:01, the first ambulance and emergency calls were received.
Around 20:04, the first social media posts appear that a shooting was heard in the City Hall. Terrorists shoot at people and pour fuel in several places, brought with them in backpacks, then set on fire. The first videos appear, which heard the sounds of the automatic queue and see how the attackers shoot people at the point.
Eyewitnesses said that the militants broke into the hall, three of them began shooting at the crowd, and the fourth carried out arson, using incendiary bombs prepared for this purpose. Mash reported that in the backpacks of the attackers were containers with fuel.
The attack took a total of 18 minutes. 20:13 – a car with four terrorists leaves the parking lot.
Literally 20 minutes later, the fire already engulfed a significant part of the building, the street was visible flames and a black column of smoke.
As The Insider was able to find out, the first message about the smoke in the “Crocus City Hall” on the fire department came from an eyewitness, there is no data on the operation of the automated fire system.
Less than an hour after the fire, the entire roof of the Crocus and part of the upper floors were engulfed by fire. Dozens of fire brigades tried to fight the flames, helicopters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the place.
Onto reportTASS at 20:33, the “Moscow units of SOBR and riot police are raised by the command of the alarm, they are headed to the place. Also onthe dataTASS, by 21:01 SOBR and OMON were still on the wayan hour and a half after the attack. . . At 10 pm the mediaReported byThe terrorists could have escaped.
50 ambulances were sent to the burning building. The collapse of the overlaps in the Crocus. Rescuers can not start extinguishing the building from helicopters because of the evacuation of people.
In one of the toilets of the “Crocus,” according to preliminary data, the bodies of 10 people were found, wrote Baza. According to the channel, people hid from the shooting, called the number 112 and asked to save them, because the smoke had already begun to enter the room and they were blocked.
While the evacuation and extinguishing of the fire, Rosgvardiya conducted an inspection of the parking lots near the Crocus, no explosives and devices were found.
A few hours later, the first reports of a special operation of the FSB to cover the attackers in the area of the village of Hatsun in the Bryansk region began to appear.
As for the fire, it was completely extinguished only in the afternoon of the next day. The area of the fire reached 13 thousand square meters. The m.
The Suspects
A day after the terrorist attack in the Moscow region, the ISIS-linked Amaq agency posted horrific footage of the terrorist attack on Crocus City Hall. In the video, the militants shoot at people, shout slogans, in particular, “Allahu Akbar!.” One of the attackers cuts the wounded throat with a knife. For ethical reasons, we do not post a video, you can get acquainted with it on thisLink. . . On the footage, the clothes of terrorists coincide with the clothes of previously detained on suspicion of involvement in the terrorist attack.
On March 23, the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reported on the detention of 11 people, including all four terrorists who killed people in the Crocus City Hall. Earlier, State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinshtein said that the car “Renault,” on which the suspects moved, was seen at night in the area of the village of Khatsun of the Karachinsky district of the Bryansk region. The car did not stop at the request of law enforcement officers and tried to escape.
According to заявилa BBC Russian service source, two of the participants in the attack on the Crocus City Hall were killed. One in the auditorium itself, and the second in the Bryansk region, where the security forces carried out the detention. A copy of the passport of the murdered is at the disposal of the BBC, it is a 30-year-old citizen of Tajikistan.
Margarita Simonyan published a video on the Telegram channel with the interrogation of one of the detainees. On camera, the man said that for the murder of people he was promised to pay 500 thousand rubles. A month ago, he was contacted via Telegram by an assistant of a certain “preacher,” whose speeches he often listened. After a long communication, the interlocutor offered him to organize the murders of people: they sent the place and details of the future terrorist attack.
In the video, the man faces the ground and appears, presumably, like Shamsudin Fariduni. He says that on March 4 he flew from Turkey, where he was the radio of the documents.
Telegram-channel VChK-OGPU publishes another fragment of the recording of the informal interrogation of Fariduni. He says he was sitting and knowing everything. He also admitted that he bought the car used by the attackers.
According to the Telegram channel 112, one of the terrorists on the eve of the attack attended the event in the “Crocus.” He examined the layout and location of security posts to calculate the paths of departure.
Simonyan published a video of the interrogation of the second detainee. The man, whom she calls the leader (later it became known that it is 32-year-old Dalerjon Mirzoev), on the recording tells through an interpreter that he lived in a hostel in the Dmitrov district near the highway. With him, he said, a certain Muhamad lived.
10-12 days ago, he met in Telegram with a certain Abdullo, whose relatives then, along with Muhamad, bought a car. In the video, the man behind the scenes, presumably shows the detainee a certain image and asks whether Abdullo. The man responds in the affirmative.
Later, footage of the third suspect began to appear on the network. This 30-year-old Rachabalizod Saidakrumi Murodali, who was cut off a piece of his ear during his detention. The video of the torture appeared in the provocous Telegram channel “Channel of special purpose.”
On the frames, a man in camouflage presses the lying on the stomach of the detainee with a knee to the ground and puts a piece of cut ear in his mouth. The network also got footage of a bloody person led to the car people in camouflage with weapons. The video was posted in his Telegram channel by the head of the Zaporozhye movement “We, together with Russia,” Vladimir Rogov.
The video was taken near the village of Commune in the Navlinsky district of the Bryansk region, it was geolodized by one of the members of the GeoConfimed community. The village is located near the village of Hatsun, which was reported by Hinstein, telling about the detention.
Later, the fighter DShRG , the head of the organization for the fight against slavery – Alternating Evgeny Rasskaov with the call sign “Topaz” posted a photo of the knife, which, according to him, and cut off the ear, and offered to sell it at auction. The detainee of the stories promised a painful death in prison.
Later in the Telegram channel ANNA News published a video with the interrogation of Murodali. On this record, the man is already sitting with a banded head and in bloody clothes.
The fourth suspect is 19-year-old Muhammado-siberal Fayzov. He was injured in the eye during the detention, the photo was published by Telegram-channels. He was sent to the hospital for surgery, where he was later interrogated.
Telegram-channel My Moscow has published footage of the interrogation in the hospital. Judging by the video, the man does not understand what is happening. He says that he received documents for staying in the Russian Federation right at the airport. The video starts with his line in the Tajik language: “What have I done?” The Insider translated the interrogation into Russian.
Orientation of the suspects
The Baza Telegram channel has published guidelines for four suspects sent to all police departments of the Central Federal District. They claimed: all the suspects – citizens of Tajikistan, registered in the Yaroslavl, Ivanovo and Samara regions. From the publication it follows that the suspects are called Makhmadrasul Nasriddinov (37 years old), Rivozhidin Ismonov (51 years), Shokhinzhon Safalzoda (21 years old), Rustam Nazarov (29 years old).
The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan said that two people from the orientations are now in the republic at the place of residence and returned from Russia on November 26, 2023. The agency also published photos of two men, coinciling two people from the orientations.
Of the four detainees in the Bryansk region, videos and photos with which Telegram channels were published, none fit the image on the orientations published by the Baza channel.
Later, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan reported that another suspect, who took place on some common reports in the network, 29-year-old resident of the city of Bokhtar of the Khatlon region, currently works in Samara as a taxi driver. At the time of the terrorist act, he was in the city of Samara and is not related to this crime, – said in a statement by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tajikistan.
On March 23, ISIS, through the agency “Amak,” close to the Islamic State, published photos of militants who, as stated in the message, committed a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.
The accompanying report said that the four men were armed with machine guns, pistols, knives and incendiary bombs, they conducted careful monitoring of the scene before the attack.
As The Insider was able to notice, the color, cut and tainty on the clothes 4of terrorists in a group photo and in the above-mentioned video, shot in the “Crocus City Hall,” coincide with the clothes of the detainees (1, 2, 3, 4) on suspicion of committing a terrorist attack.
Acced in court
On March 24, the first court hearing was held, at which the measure of restraint was elected. All four defendants in the attack on Crocus City Hall were brought to the Basmanny court with traces of beatings and torture, bruises and bruises, and Muhammadobir Fayzov was unconscious at all. The defendants were sent to jail until May 22.
The first in the courtroom in Basmanny court was Dalerjona Mirzoyev – a 32-year-old citizen of Tajikistan and the father of four minor children. He fully admitted his guilt.
Also in the courtroom brought Rachabalizoda Sayadkrami Murodali, to whom the security forces cut off the ear during the interrogation. He also pleaded guilty. Rachabalizod said that he was married and he had a child. It is registered in Russia, but where exactly – does not remember.
The third defendant accused of the terrorist attack – 25-year-old Shamsidin Fariduni. He is known to be married and has an eight-month-old child. Fariduni worked as a handyman at a factory in Podolsk, registered in Krasnogorsk. He answered all the questions in Russian himself, except for the question about the presence of young children, which he was transferred.
The fourth defendant, Muhammad-selector Fayzov, who was interrogated in the resuscitation, was taken to the courtroom in chairs with a stretcher. During the meeting, he was probably unconscious and did not react to what was happening. Faiz is single, he has no children, he has an average education. Registered in Ivanovo.
All four were charged on p. I’b. 3 st. 205 CC (Terrorist act). Meetings against all the defendants at the request of the investigation were held in a closed mode from the listeners.
Reaction in Russia and the West
The United States warned Russia about the terrorist attack and provided intelligence on a potential attack. This is reported by CBS News, citing an American official. In addition, Washington has data confirming that ISIS is behind the attack.
After these publications, the agency confirmed that the United States really transmitted to Russia information about the impending terrorist attack. However, according to a source from the Russian intelligence services, it was not specific.
Russian state channels three times in the night of March 22 to 23 were preparing to publish the appeal of Vladimir Putin, but did not receive it, sources told The Insider. Instead of appealing to the Kremlin сообщилиreported that Putin received reports on the progress of the investigation of the terrorist attack. Also, through the deputy chairman of the government, Tatyana Golikova, he wished the victims of the terrorist attack in the “Crocus” recovery.
19 hours after the terrorist attack, the Russian president made an official statement and declared a nationwide mourning. Putin said that the detainees tried to hide, moving in the direction of Ukraine. According to him, a window was prepared for them to cross the border.
The official representative of the GUR Andriy Yusov called the statement about the involvement of Kiev in the terrorist attack.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr ZelenskyRecent commentsHe noted that Putin and his officials are trying to dismiss responsibility.
"This is a negligence of Putin, instead of dealing with its citizens of Russia, to address them, for a day I was silent - I thought how to attract it to Ukraine. Everything is absolutely predictable. (...) What happened yesterday in Moscow, obviously, and Putin, and other scumbags are just trying to dump someone else. They always have the same methods. It was already there. And the houses were blown up, and shootings and explosions. And they always accuse others," Zelensky said.
The hundreds of thousands of Russians who are now killing on Ukrainian soil would be enough to stop any terrorists. And if the Russians are ready to silently die in Crocus and not ask any questions to their special services, then Putin will try to turn in favor of his personal power.The U.S. State Department issued a statement by Secretary of State Anthony Blinkan, in which America strongly condemned the deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. Blinkan also wrote about it on Twitter.
The condolences to the relatives of the victims were expressed by politicians and officials in many countries. Among them are French leader Emmanuel Macron, British Foreign Minister David Cameron, Italian Prime Minister George Meloni, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and others.
