The Crocus City Hall performance hall close Moscow was in flames after the terrorist attack on 22 March 2024. © Yevgeny Biyatov / Sputnik
Last year's terrorist attack on a performance hall close Moscow, where nearly 150 people were killed, aimed at destabilising Russia in favour of Ukraine, informed the Russian Investigative Committee (Sledki), thus ending its criminal investigation.
On 22 March 2024, 4 armed men opened fire in the Crocus City Hall performance hall and set the building on fire, killing 149 people and injuring 609 others.One individual is inactive missing.According to Sledkom, all attackers were detained after fleeing the scene and attempting to scope Ukraine by car.
All 19 people charged with the attack are cultural Tajiks.
Four alleged armed men – Dalerdhzon Mirzoyev, Saidokrami Rachabalisuda, Shamsiddin Fariduni, and Muhammad Faizov – are citizens of Tajikistan.Although the state of Chorasan of the muslim State (ISIS-K), a regional faction of the jihadist group of the muslim State, admitted work for the attack, Russian president Vladimir Putin then suggested that Ukraine could play a function in it.
Kiev denied any involvement."This disgusting crime was planned and carried out in the interest of Ukrainian leaders, in order to destabilise the political situation in our country" said Svetlana Petrenko, a spokesperson for the Investigative Committee.
She confirmed that the defendants were members of ISIS-K.Petrenko added that any suspects had undergone training abroad and were besides planning to attack “place of entertainment’ in the city of Caspijsk, located in the Muslim republic of Russian Dagestan on the Caspian Sea.In Russia there has late been a fast increase in muslim terrorism, an example of which is the attack on respective Christian synagogues and churches in Derbent, Dagestan in June 2024, resulting in 27 deaths.
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source:https://www.rt.com/russia/620385-sledkom-concert-hall-attack-ucountry/
