02:50, 21 July 2025

Preliminary hearing date set for Crocus bombing case

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A preliminary hearing on the terrorist attack in the Crocus City Hall concert hall near Moscow will be held today behind closed doors in the Second Western District Court.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, on March 22, 2024, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow, opened fire and set fire to it. 145 people were killed, the FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. This terrorist attack was the largest in 30 years in the Moscow region. On June 23, it became known that the investigation into the case of 19 people accused of involvement in the terrorist attack was completed, their case was transferred to the prosecutor's office.

In April 2024, four Tajik citizens and a Russian citizen, Shakhromdzhon Gadoev, Mustakim Soliev, Zubaydullo Ismailov, Umedzhon Soliev and Khusein Khamidov, who worked as tilers at construction sites in Makhachkala and Kaspiysk, were arrested in Dagestan. The investigation believes that they were preparing a terrorist attack in Kaspiysk and supplied weapons to those involved in the attack on Crocus City Hall. In November 2024, residents of Ingushetia, Khusein Medov and Dzhabrail Aushev, were detained in connection with the terrorist attack. The investigation links them to the recognized terrorist militant wing of the Ingush vird of the Batalkhadzhins. In December 2024, four more residents of Ingushetia were detained on suspicion of aiding the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall.

A preliminary hearing on the case of the terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall concert venue has been scheduled for today, July 21, at the Second Western District Military Court in Moscow, Kommersant writes.

The hearing will be held behind closed doors. According to the court's press service, unprecedented measures will be taken to ensure the safety of the participants in the process.

The investigation materials on the case, in which 19 people are involved, number more than 200 volumes. The prosecutor's office spent ten days approving the charges, since the investigation was conducted under its control the entire time, TASS reports.

Another case - against the employees of the concert venue itself, accused of providing services that do not meet safety requirements (Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), according to some reports, is still under investigation.

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