The president was notified in the first minutes of the shooting in the Crocus concert complex – Kremlin spokesman Dimitriy Peskov also spoke about this.
Moscow terror attack: Putin gave immediate instructions
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According to Peskov, Vladimir Putin is constantly informed about events and measures through all competent services. THE RIA Novosztyi a Russian news portal quotes Peskov as telling reporters that President Putin was immediately informed of the shooting.
As Világgazdaság also wrote, it is Russia’s FSB announced on Friday evening that shooting and fire broke out near Moscow in Krasnogorsk, on the northwest border of the capital, in the Crocus art center. The band called Piknik was preparing to perform here. According to the FSB, forty people died and more than a hundred were injured. The Russian Commission of Inquiry according to his report, criminal proceedings were initiated for a terrorist attack.
RIA correspondent Novosztyi, who witnessed the incident, reported that at least three men broke into the building, shot people and threw incendiary bombs.
The former Russian president also spoke about the terror in Moscow: according to Dmitri Medvedev, the perpetrators of the terrorist attack in Moscow must be severely punished, he said. According to him, terrorists only understand retaliatory terror.
All public events in Moscow were canceled due to the attack on the Krasnogorsk event center. Mayor Sergej Szobjanyin called what happened a huge tragedy.
A few hours after the terrorist attack in Moscow, they already took responsibility for the attack. At the same time, they are still in debt with concrete evidence.