One of imprisoned allegedly involved in the attack on a concert hall on Friday Crocus Town Hall from Moscow I confessed that They were promised 500,000 rubles, about 5,000 euros. They died in the attack 133 people.
“Half a million rubles,” says one of the prisoners in a recording of the interrogation released by Russian television Channel One. “Who gave it to you?” asks one of the interrogators. “I have not received it yet. I received half,” he explained. The money arrived via transfer to a bank card.
The arrests were the result of a joint operation FSB and fighters of the Chechen regiment AjmatAs the leader of Chechnya announced shortly afterwards, Ramzan Kadirovwho indicated that the operation began around 3:00 a.m.
The vehicle they were driving was a white Renault Logan, presumably the same one in which they arrived at the Crocus town hall on Friday at around 8:00 p.m. Russian capital time (6:00 p.m. in Spain). They then fled in the same vehicle in which they managed to reach Yatsun on the Kiev highway. about 100 kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Authorities continue to investigate, but from the interrogation it is clear that the entire operation has begun just a month ago with the economic proposal to those who later carried out the attack.
The Islamic State, protagonist of at least fifteen attacks in Russia in recent years
The Islamic State (IS) attacks on Russian soil are nothing new. The jihadist group began operations in Russia in 2015some of them without victims and others with multiple deaths, like what happened in the Urals in 2017 as the explosion left an apartment building 39 died.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for or been responsible for the crime, according to figures drawn from both its own data and databases such as the US State Department at least 15 attacks in Russia between 2015 and 2019the last year in which a Daesh action was registered in Moscow until this Friday.
Which is in the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Moscow the deadliest Nothing has been known since then, but ISIS’s actions in Russia range from the murder of police officers, the massacre of worshipers in a church, an explosion in a supermarket, shootings and even a lone wolf stabbing passers-by.