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| Emin Agalarov reported that the fate of Crocus City Hall has not yet been determined |
| 2025-02-28 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] The approximate damage caused to Crocus Group by the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow amounted to 150-200 million dollars. These figures were given to RIA Real Estate by Emin Agalarov, president of Agalarov Development, son of Crocus Group owner Araz Agalarov. Speaking about financial losses, Emin Agalarov emphasized that the terrorist attack is, first and foremost, “a huge tragedy for people.” “From a business perspective, this was a devastating effect for the entire Crocus Group; the work of all facilities was paralyzed and attendance decreased,” the businessman said, adding that Crocus City Hall was visited daily by 6–7 thousand people. What will happen to the destroyed concert hall is still unknown; there is no certainty, he clarified. According to Agalarov, about 70 million dollars were spent on the construction of the building 15 years ago. “The damage to the concert hall itself is about 100 million. The damage to the shopping center from the loss of attendance is about the same, 150-200 million,” the company’s president concluded. As reported by the Regnum news agency, the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall was carried out on March 22, 2024. They broke into the concert hall filled with people and opened fire, then started a fire. As a result of the attack, 144 people were killed and another 551 were injured. The criminal case against 19 persons involved in the terrorist attack was separated into a separate proceeding. President Vladimir Putin said that the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall was carried out by radical Islamists, but Russia is interested in who ordered it. Information received from those detained confirms the Ukrainian connection to the terrorist attack, FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov said earlier. He stressed that the Islamists could not have prepared the terrorist attack at Crocus themselves; they were assisted. |
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