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Four men accused of opening fire at 6,000 people attending a concert in Moscow on Friday night with act of terrorism

Russian court on Sunday charged Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizodawith, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Fayzov

143 people were killed and more than 150 injured – Suspect pled guilty in court

Viral video shows Fariddun on his knees during interrogation, allegedly confessing he was paid one Million RUB [$10,760], to carry out the attack

Suspects, all identified as citizens of Tajikistan, appeared to have been beaten and one was brought to court in a wheelchair

Footage of one suspect screaming in terror during his capture as he is chased through woods by soldiers

Captors tell him they’ll ‘cut him up’, then slice off his ear and force him to eat his body part

Seven other suspects have also been arrested in the wake of the terror attack

Terror suspects Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev [left] and Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda [right], were frogmarched into court in Moscow alongside two other suspects on Sunday. They were charged with committing an act of terrorism

The four male suspects allegedly behind the latest terrorist attack in Russia attack were dragged into Basmanny district court in the Russian capital, Moscow, on Sunday.
The suspects Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizodawith, Shamsidin Fariduni and Muhammadsobir Fayzov with acts of terrorism who have all been identified as citizens of Tajikistan, have been accused of launching an attack on a Moscow concert hall that killed at least 137 people on March 22.
All four appeared to have been beaten and one was brought to court in a wheelchair.
They were charged with committing an act of terrorism.
On Friday night, four gunmen stormed the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a northern Moscow suburb, and began firing on some of the estimated 6,000 people who were attending a rock concert. One of the terrorists was seen staking out the venue just a few days before the attack. 
Shots were first fired at people waiting in the foyer before the killers made their way to the concert hall area. 
After shooting at concert-goers the suspected ISIS terrorists also set fires which engulfed the venue and caused the roof to collapse.
Russian authorities said 143 people were killed, at least three children, with the numbers expected to rise as others were gravely injured. More than 100 injured.
Rescuers are continuing to search the rubble of the concert hall for victims, and regional officials said the operation would carry on through Tuesday afternoon.
The Islamic State group, or ISIS, said it carried out Friday’s outrage at Crocus City Hall and posted video evidence.
Some in Moscow, despite some international media outlets alleging that they have verified the graphic footage released by the Islamic State showing attackers firing on the crowd inside the concert hall, to be genuine, Russia has accused Ukrainian involvement.
No evidence has been produced to back that claim, Officials have suggested – without evidence – that the attackers were being helped by Ukraine and Kyiv had “prepared a window” to allow them to cross the border and escape into its territory.
Kyiv in response has denied the Russian claim of Ukraine’s involvement.
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday rejected the claims.
Ukraine’s military intelligence directorate said it was “absurd” to suggest the men were trying to cross a heavily mined border, teeming with hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers, to reach safety.
According toUS national security council spokeswoman, Adrienne Watson, IS bears “sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever”.

Significantly, Russia officially has not acknowledged the claim, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in a news conference on Monday that it was inappropriate to comment on it until the investigation had been completed.
Peskov noted that because of the tense international situation there was little collaboration between countries on fighting terrorism.
In a related move, France raised its terror alert to the highest level, with President Macron saying on Monday that the Islamic State group behind the Moscow attack had also recently been targeting France.
The French president also warned Russia against trying to exploit the attack to blame Ukraine, describing such a move as cynical and counter-productive.

Shamsidin Fariduni [left], frogmarched into court, while Muhammadsobir Fayzov [right], was brought to court in Moscow in a wheelchair are charged with committing an act of terrorism alongside alleged co-conspirators Mirzoyev and Rachabalizoda

Video showed three of the suspects being marched bent double by masked police into Basmanny district court in the Russian capital on Sunday, March 24.
All appeared to show signs of physically tortured.
Videos of brutal interrogation sessions were apparently leaked by Russian security forces, and reports suggest at least one had suffered electric shocks.
Making their court appearance over the weekend two of the men, identified as Mirzoyev and Rachabalizoda, were sporting black eyes.
Mirzoyev also appeared to have a torn plastic bag wrapped around his neck.
Rachabalizoda’s ear was heavily bandaged. It was allegedly, partially severed during his arrest.

The terror attack at the the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a northern Moscow suburb, was caught on tape

Police officers escort a suspect in the Crocus City Hall shooting on Friday, into the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia on Sunday

Fariduni’s face was badly swollen, while the fourth suspect, Fayzov, appeared to lose consciousness as he was brought into court in a wheelchair wearing a thin hospital gown.
He appeared to have an eye missing, according to the Reuters report.
All were held in a glass-paneled booth and guarded by masked police during their time in court.

Footage of alleged ISIS attacker Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda confessing that he was paid to shoot Russian citizens at a concert venue in Moscow

A court statement on the Telegram messaging service said Mirzoyev had “admitted his guilt in full”, while Rachabalizoda also “admitted guilt”.
The men were identified as citizens of Tajikistan, Russia’s state news agency, Tass, reports.
The court ordered the four suspects to be held in pre-trial detention until at least 22 May.
The attack has raised questions about Russia’s moratorium on the death penalty, with several senior officials calling for it to be lifted.
On the subject of capital punishment, Peskov said the Russian authorities “are not taking part in this discussion”.
Russia’s Federal Security Service [FSB], said the four suspects who appeared in court on Sunday were arrested in the Bryansk region around 14 hours after the attack, around 250 miles, south-west of Moscow,
Seven other people have been arrested in Russia suspected of aiding the attack.

The US warned Moscow earlier this month of a possible attack in Russia aimed at large gatherings before issuing a public advisory to citizens in the country.
The alert was roundly dismissed by the Kremlin as propaganda and an attempt to meddle in its presidential election.
Washington said after the attack that it had no reason to doubt the IS claim.Western intelligence agencies have said the attack was probably carried out by the Khorasan branch of IS, known as Isis-K, which chiefly operates in Afghanistan and parts of Central Asia.
Isis-K who frequently criticizes President Vladimir Putin in its propaganda, is among the most able and active of the IS offshoots, and was responsible for deadly suicide attacks at Kabul airport during the American withdrawal of August and September 2021.
It would not be the first time IS and its allies have attacked Russia or its interests abroad.
The group claimed the bombing of a Russian aircraft over Egypt in 2015 with 224 people on board, most of them Russian citizens. IS also claimed a 2017 bomb attack on the St Petersburg metro, which killed 15 people.
Security analysts say the group considers Russia a primary target for a number of reasons, including the country’s role in destroying it’s power base in Syria while securing the administration President Bashar al-Assad’s.
In addition to the Soviet-era invasion of Afghanistan, between 1994-2009 Russia fought two brutal wars in Muslim-majority Chechnya.

Footage shared via Telegram, shows Russian border guards and FSB agents catch up with a suspect, Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda, after furiously chasing him through dense woodlands

The four ISIS terrorists who were charged overnight with terrorism, after they were caught The group allegedly, en route to Ukraine were reportedly apprehended by Chechen fighters loyal to close Putin ally and warlord Ramzan Kadyrov.
Subsequently is alleged, they were tortured and detained by Russian security services.
In a 90-second-long clip shared to Telegram, soldiers were seen furiously battering a man understood to be suspect Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda after chasing him through dense woodlands. The armed recovery party can be seen running through snow and flowing water as they catch up with the terrorist.
Rachabalizoda is then seen lying on his back in a fetal position after two armed men catch up to him as several dogs surround him as well. 
Rachabalizoda who is believed to be part of an ultra-brutal sect of ISIS, was the only suspect seen reconnoitering the venue a few days before the attack. 

Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda was seen with a large bandage on his right ear in court. Footage emerged of Rachabalizoda crying and screaming when he was caught by Russian soldiers, who then cut off one his ears and made him eat it

Shamsidin Fariduni, a suspect in the shooting attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, appeared in the District Court in Moscow with a severely swollen face

A visibly injured Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev one of the four men suspected of carrying out the attack  man sits behind a glass wall at the Basmanny district court in Moscow on Monday. He appears to have lost an eye

Muhammadsobir Fayzov [photo], was forced to attend court in a wheelchair, wearing a hospital gown

One soldier can be seen repeatedly punching him in the face as he screams at him.
The soldier is heard saying: ‘He’s a tramp! Where is your weapon? Your f****** weapon! What have you done with your weapon? I will search you now! Stand! Hit him again. Where are the rest?’
The detainee says that he doesn’t have any weapons on him.  

The group allegedly, en route to Ukraine were reportedly apprehended by Chechen fighters loyal to close Putin ally and warlord Ramzan Kadyrov. Soldiers are seen in video clip repeatedly punching captured ISIS terror suspect, Saidakrami Murodalii Rachabalizoda

Another soldier walks over and kicks him, as Rachabalizoda screams, before a third batters him with the butt of his gun. 
One soldier tells him: ‘Stand or I’ll set the dog on you.’
As a Russian soldier begins picking the terror suspect up, another punches him in the head and Rachabalizoda cries out in agony and falls back to the floor. 
A soldier tells him: ‘Come on you scum b****. I will cut you up.’

Rachabalizoda can be seen lying on his back in a fetal position after two of the pursuing security officials assisted by several dogs surround him

Moments later, one of the soldiers sliced off Rachabalizoda’s right ear with a knife and forces him to eat it, before he spits it out the body part. Two days later Rachabalizoda was seen in court with a swollen face and a bandaged right ear.
He wasn’t the only terror suspect involved in the deadly massacre on Friday who was allegedly tortured at the hands of Russian authorities, after an image was shared to pro-Russian Telegram channels showing Shamsuddin Fariddun foaming at the mouth as he lies on a gym floor with his trousers pulled down and wires attached to his groin area. 
At the other end they are attached to a military radio powered by an 80-volt battery.
A Telegram channel which is linked to Wagner paramilitary force showed an image of another suspect Shamsuddin Fariddun undergoing ‘an ordinary interrogation’, heightened by the use of a military field telephone TA-57 with leads attached to his groin area.

One of the suspected terrorists, Shamsuddin Fariddun, lying on a gym floor with his trousers pulled down [photo], with leads evidently attached to his groin area

The narrative intones ‘By turning the coil…discharges are released through the wires… up to 80 volts, which in turn are connected to the prisoner by the fingers, ears or genitals…
‘For best effect, the captured militant should be poured with water.’
ISIS twice claimed responsibility for the attack over the weekend, first posting a selfie taken by the four men, all of whom are Russian citizens, in front of an ISIS flag before posting a 90-second selfie video of the devastating attack from the terrorists’ perspective. 
But Russian authorities again tried to discredit the direct claims made by the terror group, instead appearing to blame the attack on the West, after it emerged that the US tried to warn Russia about the massacre weeks before it happened. 

Shamsuddin Fariddun was allegedly seen staking out Crocus City Hall on March 7 when he was photographed [image], at the venue by a photographer who was working at Crocus

Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, suspected of taking part in the attack of a concert hall, sits in the defendant cage with a bandaged right, allegedly severed by his captors 

Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, a suspect in the shooting attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue, sporting a battered face, sits behind a glass wall of an enclosure for defendants at the Basmanny district court in Moscow

It has been suggested in some quarters that images of the torture of the suspects is being deliberately leaked to the media, as all of the images were released via Telegram channels sympathetic to the security services. 
This they explain by insinuating that Moscow is scrambling to save face by casting fresh doubt on ISIS claiming responsibility for the Moscow concert massacre that killed 137, injuring 100 people, the deadliest attack in Russia in years. 
Russian image maker Zakharova accused US authorities of spreading a version of the ‘bogeyman’ of Islamic State to cover its ‘wards’ in Kyiv. He reminded readers that Washington supported the ‘Mujahideen’ fighters who fought Soviet forces in the 1980s. 

Firefighters fight the blaze after the terrorists launched the shooting rampage during a concert in Moscow’s Crocus City Hall left more than 6,000 at the venue on Friday March 22

The terrorists set the venue on fire and the roof collapsed on concert attendees

More than 143 dead and over a hundred wounded. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack

New footage filed inside the Crocus City Hall venue in Krasnogorsk also emerged, showing people running and cowering behind tables as the gunmen open fire in the main lobby of the building. People can be heard screaming as continuous bullets break through glass doors and mow down victims in what was the deadliest attack on Russia in years.
Videos previously emerged on social media of the suspects being arrested – with one shaking on his knees and apparently confessing to carrying out the attack. The images were released to Telegram channels sympathetic to the security services, with Moscow’s opponents saying that it appeared the treatment of the suspects was deliberately leaked to the media.

Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev sits in the defendant cage as he waits for his pre-trial detention hearing at the Basmanny District Court in Moscow on Sunday, March 24

‘It is obvious that sanctions for these tortures, as well as for the torture of Ukrainian prisoners, are given from the very top… ‘The same as with Prigozhin using a sledgehammer… an executor of the will of the murderer and dictator Vladimir Putin. If there is all the evidence and [it] has been collected, why should the FSB torture the Tajiks?
‘So that they take the blame and voice a version [of the atrocity] convenient for Putin and the FSB?’
This coincided with a warning from the US and UK embassies in Moscow about the imminent threat of a strike on a crowded venue.

Videos shared online show three different men, who Moscow claims were responsible for the attack at the Crocus City Hall on Friday, allegedly being detained by a group of soldiers.
One of the suspects is seen shaking on his knees, with his hands bound behind his back, apparently confessing to carrying out the massacre, which left more than 140 people dead.
He was reportedly filmed while being held in the Bryansk region after he was found hiding in a tree while trying to flee to Ukraine, which has vehemently denied any role in the bloodbath.
The video shows one of the suspects, Fariddun, on Saturday, apparently confessing as he is kneeling with his hands bound behind his back.
He claims to have flown from Turkey on March 4, receiving instructions, via Telegram, from persons unknown to him to execute the attack in exchange for a Million RUB [$10,760].

Fariddun is one of four suspected terrorists being interrogated by the Russian Investigative Committee about the Moscow attack, is seen on his knees allegedly confessing that he was paid to carry out the attack in exchange for a Million RUB [$10,760]

He claimed he had followed a ‘preacher’ name as Fariduni Shamsidin.
He said: ‘I listened to lessons, studied on Telegram. The preacher’s assistant suggested killing people, and promised me a million rubles.’
He claimed not to know the name of the preacher of his assistant who had ordered the killings.
Another detained suspect said he had been promised 500,000 RUB [$5,380] for carrying out the act, and had received 250,000 RUB [$2,690] in an advance payment. 
Expressing his distrust of the so-called confession, exiled Russian journalist and editor of Republic media, Dmirty Kolezev, said: ‘The Russian security forces are leaking photos showing that detained terrorist attack suspects are being tortured with electric shocks by tying wires to their genitals.
‘I have no doubt that after this there will be admissions that the order to kill people in Crocus was given to them personally by Zelensky.
‘Torture is, unfortunately, commonplace. What is unusual here is that the security forces used to bashfully hide this. But now they are proud of it and, apparently, they themselves release photographs of torture to friendly Telegram channels.’

22ussian soldier marches one of the suspected ISIS terrorists who shot up a Moscow concert venue on March 22, are frogmarched blindfolded into a building for interrogation after their capture on March 7, 250 miles west of the Russian capital

Terror attack suspect held tightly by security guard as he and three accomplices are led out of vans blindfolded and brought to the Russian Investigative Committee for questioning

Moscow’s massacre suspects lined up against a wall [photo], inside the Investigation Committee HQ in Russia 

Stills from videos shared on social media show the suspected blindfolded and handcuffed as they are taken into the building for interrogation 

Russian security officials examine the arsenal left behind by the gunmen who staged the bloodbath at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow that left at least 143 people dead, a fortnight ago

Russian security officers report finding four sets of combat munition, including 500 round, 28 magazines and  Two Kalashnikov assault rifles at the crime scene

Officers said they found four sets of combat ammunition, more than 500 rounds of ammunition and 28 magazines at the scene of the massacre. Two Kalashnikov assault rifles were also recovered from the concert hall.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack and it is thought the men were members of for ISIS-K, an offshoot of the terrorist organization. 
The group released a 90-second gloat after the attack. The clip, described by the terror group as ‘exclusive scenes… of the bloody attack on Christians yesterday in the city of Krasnogorsk in Moscow’, begins with one terrorist holding a knife running into the main hall of Crocus City Hall.
The man filming the video twice says: ‘Bring the machine gun. Kill them and have no mercy on them.’

ISIS released sickening a 90-second selfie video of the attack in Moscow, gloating that they had killed Christians

A massive blaze is seen over the Crocus City Hall after the terrorists set the building on fire on the night of March 22. The attack happened in Krasnogorsk, on the western outskirts of Moscow on Friday night

More images of Moscow’s Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk concert hall burning from arson set by the terrorists following the shooting of concert attendees

Another man carrying what appears to be a yellow and black machine gun then runs into the hall and begins firing wildly in all directions.
The gun appears to match up with images released by Russian authorities of the aftermath of the attack.
Another man carrying what appears to be a yellow and black machine gun then runs into the hall and begins firing wildly in all directions.
The gun appears to match up with images released by Russian authorities of the aftermath of the attack.
The gunman filming the sick attack can be heard saying: ‘The infidels will be defeated, God willing. God is great. The infidels will be defeated. We went out for the sake of God and to seek His religion.’

Stills from the graphic 90-second selfie video released by ISIS’ news agency Amaq, after the attack show the terrorists executing their rampage

This footage shows the gunmen moving towards the doors of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk to launch their attack

The four heavily armed men are then seen slowly walking away from the entrance to the main hall.
It has been alleged that one of the suspected killers staked out the Crocus City Hall venue more than two weeks ago.
One of the shooters identified as Shamsuddin Fariddun, was caught on camera by a photographer at Crocus City Hall on March 7, it has been claimed. 
143 people were killed and around 150 more were injured in the attack. 
One of the victims has been confirmed by the Russian Health Ministry as 42-year-old former beauty queen Ekaterina Novoselova.

Russia claims the group of four gunmen allegedly, en route to Ukraine, were apprehended by Chechen fighters loyal to close Putin ally and warlord Ramzan Kadyrov

Another victim was Natalia Zudina, 44, a graduate of the Ural State Economics University, who was originally from Yekaterinburg.
An eight-year-old boy has been listed as among those injured and is said to be in a critical condition in hospital.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced March 24 as a day of national mourning in an address that was televised to the country, according to Russian news agency Tass.