Suspects in 2024 Attack on the Moscow concert hall which killed 149 on the trial opposite | Short news

Russian President Vladimir Putin claims, without providing proof that Ukraine has been involved in the attack, an allegation that Kyiv vehemently denies.

The trial began for 19 accused of participation in the 2024 shooting attack in a concert hall in Moscow which killed 149 people, and injured more than 600, in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital since the era of the Russian chéchénie wars in the years 1990 and 2000.

The suspects appearing before the court on Monday, under a strong security, kept their heads bowing when they were seated in the cage of the defendants.

A The affiliate of ISIL (Isis) For the massacre of March 22, 2024 in the concert hall of Crocus City Hall in which four armed men shot on people who were waiting for a spectacle of a rock group and then set fire to the building. The Afghan Eiil branch – also known as ISKP (Isis -K) – has claimed the responsibility of the attack.

President Vladimir Putin and other Russian officials said, without providing proof that Ukraine was involved in the attack, an allegation that kyiv vehemently denied.

The investigation committee, the main criminal investigation agency in Russia, concluded in June that the attack had been “planned and conducted in the interest of the current management of Ukraine in order to destabilize the political situation of our country”. He also said that the four alleged armed men had tried to flee from Ukraine thereafter.

The four, all identified as citizens of Tajikistan, were arrested a few hours after the attack and then appeared before a court in Moscow with signs of having been beaten.

The Committee said earlier this year that six other suspects had been accused and put on the list of research in Russia for having allegedly recruited and organized the training of the four. Other accused of the trial have been accused of helping them.

In 2002, around forty rebels of Chechnya stormed the Dubrovka Theater In Moscow and took around 800 people hostage while demanding the end of the Putin war in the separatist South Republic.

Putin refused to negotiate with the fighters, and the dead end ended with mass death a few days later when the Russian special services pumped a powerful gas in the building to darken the hostage before the assault. Most of the 129 deceased hostages were killed by gas.