While arresting one of the suspects in the Moscow concert hall attack, social media footage shows what appear to be armed Russian law enforcement officers beating him, cutting off his ear, and attempting to force him to eat his own ear. It was seen in a series of videos that went viral above. media.
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A video shared by Russian news agency ASTRA shows a bearded man crying on the snowy ground, surrounded by men in camouflage with rifles, who yell at him, “You son of a bitch!” I’ll cut you down!” he shouted as he continued to beat the men. Go away, you fat*t. ” One of the armed personnel was also seen firing a rifle into the air in an attempt to intimidate the suspect.
Another video showed a man, believed to be the same as the one in the previous video, having his ear cut off, and men in camouflage clothing forcing a bearded man to eat his ear.
ASTRA’s investigation revealed that the bearded man was wearing the same T-shirt as one of the attackers seen in a video published by ISIS-affiliated channel Amaq. It suggests that he is one of the attackers.
The man, with blood running down his face, was seen being escorted to a vehicle by the same group of armed men.
It is unclear where the pursuit took place. Reports initially named the region bordering Belarus, but the name was later changed to the Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine, following the Kremlin’s accusation that Ukraine was behind the attack.
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According to Russian lawmaker Alexander Hinshtein, the suspects’ white Renault car failed to obey orders to stop in the Bryansk region, leading to gunfire and one suspect being arrested at the scene, while others were arrested. ran away into the forest.
According to the video, most of the suspects had difficulty communicating in Russian. One of them was seen in a hospital bed with his hands tied behind his back and communicating with authorities with the help of an interpreter.
Another suspect said he was approached by a preacher’s assistant a month ago and offered 500,000 rubles ($5,426), half of which he received by card. Based on interrogations, it is not clear how they obtained the weapons and planned the attack.
The attack on the Crocus Concert Hall near Moscow on the night of March 22 was one of Europe’s largest terrorist attacks, in which armed men armed with rifles and grenades opened fire on concertgoers and set the building on fire. It was two.
The attack left more than 130 people dead and many more in critical condition at the time of writing. Western countries warned on March 7 that a terrorist attack was imminent in Russia within 48 hours, but most pro-Kremlin parties ignored it.
Russia has declared today a day of mourning.
