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| 27 people charged in Crocus terror attack case | |
| 2025-01-15 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Twenty-seven people have been charged in the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow, said Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee press service reported this on Tuesday, January 14. “Twenty-seven defendants have been charged in the case of the terrorist attack at Crocus,” Bastrykin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta. On March 22, 2024, terrorists broke into Crocus City Hall and opened fire on visitors and employees of the concert hall. They also started a fire. Their actions killed 144 people, and injured 551 more. The Investigative Committee opened several criminal cases, including under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Terrorist act"). 12 people were arrested. As reported by the Regnum news agency, in June 2024, the media reported that Turkish intelligence services warned Russia and helped prevent a second terrorist attack in Moscow after the attack on Crocus City Hall. According to these data, the new attack (on the shopping center) was being prepared by the same group - Vilayat Khorasan
In December 2024, law enforcement officers detained four Batalkhadzhin terrorists (the movement is recognized as terrorist and banned in the Russian Federation). It was established that they helped to organize a terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall. During the search, weapons were found on them, and correspondence with the leaders of the organization hiding abroad was found on their mobile phones. | |
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