Russian President Vladimir Putin called what happened in the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and Bloody and Barbaric Terrorist attack.
“It is already obvious that we are not only carefully with a carefully, cynically planned terrorist attack, but with a prepared and organized mass murder of peaceful defenseless people. The criminals calmly and purposefully went to kill, to shoot our citizens, our children, as if when then the Nazis who created reprisals in the occupied territories, ”said Putin in his television show.
Putin noted that the Russian special services are working on the identification of accomplices of terrorists, and the investigation will do everything to establish all the details of the attack.
“As for the investigation of this crime and the results of operational-search actions, the following can be said at present. All four direct performers of the attack, all those who shot, killed people, found and detained. They tried to hide and moved to the side Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was prepared for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. A total of 11 people were detained, ”Putin said.
“All performers, organizers and customers of this crime will suffer a fair and inevitable punishment, whoever they are, whoever directs them. We will set and punish everyone who is behind the terrorists, who prepared this blow to Russia”, – Putin promised.
He noted that “terrorists, killers, nonhumans, who have no and cannot be nationality, is waiting for one unenviable fate – retribution and oblivion.” “They have no future,” said Putin.
The President of the Russian Federation also announced on March 24 by the day of national mourning.
On the evening of March 22, unknown men armed with machine guns broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow and opened fire. A fire began in the room. Operational services reported explosions in the building.
As a result of the attack, 115 people died, over 120 were injured. The number of victims may increase, warned in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. A criminal case has been opened under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act).
The fire in Crocus City Hall is practically eliminated, the Structures and analysis of the rubble are continuing, the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov said. The ignition area was 12.9 thousand square meters. m. The roof fell over the concert hall.
Russian regions, including Moscow and the region, cancel sports, cultural and other mass events. Security measures have been strengthened in the capital’s airports. Russian Railways reported to strengthen security measures in trains and at railway stations.
The director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov reported to President Vladimir Putin about the detention of 11 people, including 4 terrorists who participated in the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall.