Footage of gunmen reinforces terror group’s claim to have masterminded worst terror attack on Russia in two decades

The videos, which were published by IS’s news agency Amaq, showed the gunmen filming themselves as they hunted concertgoers through the lobby of the Crocus City Hall and fired at them from pointblank range, killing scores of people. At one point, one of the gunmen tells another to “kill them and have no mercy”.

Sorry, Vlad. Can’t pin it on Ukraine anymore.

  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.works
    36·
    9 months ago

    It is an interesting strategy that IS deployed, to delay the release of their videos.

    This article then goes on to describe other videos (released from the Russian side, I presume?) that are horribly abhorrent:

    Some of the videos of the interrogations suggest that the men were tortured by Russian security services. One of the clips, circulated by Russian bloggers, appears to show members of the security forces cutting off the ear of a man who is later interrogated over the attack and then stuffing it into his mouth. Another appears to show security forces beating a suspect with their rifle butts and kicking him as he lies in the snow.

    Russian independent media noted that the officer who apparently cut off the ear of the suspect was wearing patches that indicated his support for neo-Nazi groups and appeared to have contact with the far-right Rusich paramilitary group, which is active in Ukraine. The patches included a black sun and a symbol resembling the Totenkopf – or death’s head – worn by several Nazi divisions.

    Given his supposed opposition to Nazism, Putin only had to look for select members of his own population, within his own borders, to find and route out Nazis:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusich_Group

    EDIT - an afterthought: And President Drink Bleach and his MAGAs support Putin.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
      13·
      9 months ago

      Nazism is only bad when it’s a small group in Ukraine with essentially no power. And, of course, Nazis in a country run by a Jewish president allows him to play the antisemitic side too.