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The four suspects in the massacre at the concert hall in Moscow were brought to a court in the city tonight (Monday), with severe signs of violence on their bodies at the end of their interrogation by the Russian security forces.
The four, accused of an act of terrorism, opened fire in all directions in the "Crocus City" hall on Friday and murdered at least 137 people.
Although the "Islamic State" organization (ISIS) accepted responsibility for the attack, Russian President Vladimir Putin and other officials tried to tie it to Ukraine, which strongly rejects it.
The four terrorists have been identified by Russian authorities as Dalardzun Mirzoyev, Seyedkrami Morodli Rahbalizode, Shamsadin Feridoni and Muhammed Faizov - all citizens of Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia with a majority Muslim population.
Three of them were marched by masked policemen into the courtroom, and the fourth was put in a wheelchair.
One of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the concert hall in Moscow, Shamsadin Feridoni, is electrocuted during his interrogations, Russia, March 23, 2024/screenshot, social networks
Since the four terrorists were captured on Saturday morning, documents have been published on social media in which they are seen undergoing violent interrogations.
In one of them Fridoni can be seen handcuffed on the floor, with his pants pulled down and cables attached to his lowered limbs.
Two of the terrorists - Mirzoyev were seen in the courtroom with bruises in their eyes, while Mirzoyev had a plastic bag around his neck and Rahvalizoda's ear was tightly bandaged.
According to the records, his ear was cut off after he was caught and it was even put in his mouth.
The face of another terrorist, Feridoni, was badly swollen, and Faizov appeared unconscious as he was wheeled into the courtroom while wearing a hospital gown.
One of his eyes was missing.
All four were put in a cage behind a glass window during the hearing, under the security of masked police officers.
According to the court's announcement, two of them - Mirozeev and Rahbalizoda - pleaded guilty.
All will remain in custody at least until May 22.
Seven other people were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack.
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One of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the concert hall in Moscow, Seyedkrami Morodly Rahvalizoda, at a court hearing, Russia, March 24, 2024/Reuters
One of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the concert hall in Moscow, Muhammed Faizov, in a wheelchair at a court hearing, Russia, March 24, 2024/Reuters
The attack, which was the worst in Russia in 20 years, took place on Friday evening, when the four terrorists stormed the concert hall in Krasnogorsk, a suburb of Moscow, where about 6,000 people gathered for a rock show.
They shot at them indiscriminately and set the place on fire, which led to the collapse of the roof.
Under the cover of the chaos and terror that prevailed there, they managed to escape and were captured only after 14 hours, in the Bryansk region, about 400 km from Moscow. Russia was quick to claim that they had made their way to Ukraine, where it claimed it had contacts, but in Kiev they reacted with fury, saying that this An attempt by the Kremlin to divert the discussion from the security failure that allowed the massacre.
"Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame someone else," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said angrily yesterday. Ukrainian military intelligence said it was "absurd" to think that the terrorists actually tried to cross the well-mined border, through hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers, in order to reach a safe place in Ukraine.
American officials said after the attack that the acceptance of responsibility by ISIS, which put Russia in the crosshairs years ago, is reliable. They added that Washington sent a warning to Moscow about the threats of attacks in crowded places in the capital, But these were rejected by the Kremlin, when President Vladimir Putin even claimed that they were part of a conspiracy designed to damage the presidential elections.
"ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack," said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson yesterday. "There was no Ukrainian involvement."
One of the terrorists who carried out the attack on the concert hall in Moscow, Dalredzon Mirzoev, at a court hearing, Russia, March 24, 2024/Reuters
Despite this, in Moscow they continue to doubt the responsibility of ISIS for the attack.
"Pay attention - a question for the White House: Are you sure it's ISIS? Maybe think about it again?"
wrote the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, in an article in a local newspaper.
She claimed that the United States is spreading a version of ISIS "terror" to impose on its "departments" in Kiev.
She reminded readers of Washington's support for the Mujahideen fighters who fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
ISIS and other Islamist terrorist organizations have previously succeeded in carrying out serious attacks in Russia or against Russian targets abroad.
In 2015, ISIS claimed responsibility for blowing up a Russian airliner flying over Egypt, with 224 passengers, most of them civilians, in retaliation for its support for Bashar's regime. Assad in Syria.
In 2017, the group claimed responsibility for an explosion at a subway station in St. Petersburg that killed 15 people.
Friday's terror attack was the deadliest in Russia since the Beslan school siege in 2004, when Islamist militants killed more than 1,000 people. As hostages, 334 people were killed then, more than half of them children.
Dmitry Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, said that Russia will hit those responsible for the attack, wherever they are and whoever they are. He also spoke of the need for "death to be met with death" as several members of parliament began to discuss the possibility of renewing the death penalty.
Yesterday, Russia observed a day of national mourning, with billboards across Moscow showing a picture of a single candle, the date of the attack and the words "We mourn." Countries around the world - including the United States and Western countries that are in conflict with Russia over the war in Moscow - expressed shock at the attack and sent their condolences to the people the russian
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