The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, addressed Russian citizens for the first time this Saturday after the terrorist attack that took the lives of 133 people on Friday night, and promised to punish all those responsible and those who ordered the attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall, on the outskirts of Moscow.
The Russian leader has assured that all the perpetrators of the attack have been identified and arrested. Previously, the head of the Russian Security Services (FSB) had informed Putin of the arrest of eleven people, including four directly involved.
“They were trying to flee and were heading towards Ukraine,” Putin said. According to him, the main thing now is to prevent “those behind the massacre” from committing new crimes. “We are going to identify and punish all those who prepared this attack against Russia,” he said.
“A disastrous fate awaits terrorists, murderers and beasts, who do not and cannot have a nationality: revenge and oblivion. They have no future,” he added.
Putin has described the attack as “bloody and barbaric” and expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and the dead. He recalled that the dozens of victims of the attack were peaceful and innocent people.
In addition, he has expressed his gratitude to the doctors, rescue teams and firefighters for doing everything possible to save people’s lives. This Sunday, March 24, will be an official day of mourning throughout Russia, the president reported.
The Ukrainian Government, for its part, this Saturday rejected all responsibility for the Moscow attack, in which more than 100 people died, and pointed to Russian responsibility for not preventing it or even facilitating it.
The terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall concert hall, located in the municipal area of ??the city of Kranogorsk, northwest of the Russian capital and just 25 kilometers from the Kremlin, began at eight at night (two hours less in Barcelona ) on Friday, March 22. Men armed with machine guns broke into the shopping center where the venue is located and then entered the auditorium, where about 6,000 people were waiting for the start of a concert by the Russian rock group Piknik, shooting.
They shot everyone they saw in the shopping center. Some witnesses indicate that they also used grenades. The attackers later set fire to the concert hall, whose roof ended up collapsing.
