MOSCOW, March 28 Teenager Nikita Ivanov, awarded for participation in the evacuation people from Crocus City Hall, said that at the time of the terrorist attack he did not think about his salvation, and his primary goal was to help the frightened visitors.
Earlier, the State Duma awarded awards to teenagers who helped lead people out of the building on the day of the Crocus tragedy. Among the awarded children are Nikita Ivanov, Islam Khalilov, Artemy Filimonov, Victoria Volchikhina, Alexander Zhurik, Elizaveta Terekhova.
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Nikita told the agency that he worked at Crocus as a cloakroom attendant. He was hanging up his jacket when the shots rang out. Nikita and other workers ran in the direction of the shooting, shouted and gestured to show the visitors where to go, and went out with them themselves. “I didn’t think at all that I needed to somehow run forward, think about myself, save only myself. I planned to go out with the crowd and my primary goal was to save people who were in panic at that moment,” Nikita noted. According to his estimates, he and the other guys took about a hundred people out of the Crocus, and after them, a couple hundred more citizens who were in the building escaped through the same exit.
Shooting and fire occurred on the evening of March 22 before a concert at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk near Moscow. A correspondent who witnessed the incident reported that several men in camouflage and without masks burst into the hall, they shot people point-blank and threw incendiary bombs.
According to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 143 people died. The twenty-fourth of March was declared a day of national mourning.
The four perpetrators of the terrorist attack were detained on March 23 in the Bryansk region. Russian President Vladimir Putin said that they tried to escape and were moving towards Ukraine, where a “window” had been prepared for them on the Ukrainian side to cross the border. The Moscow court arrested them, they are Dalerjon Mirzoev, Murodali Rachabalizoda, Faridun Shamsiddin and Muhammadsobir Fayzov, they were charged with committing a terrorist attack resulting in death as part of an organized group (clause “b” of part 3 of article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
The President noted that a total of 11 people were detained, and security forces are working to uncover the entire base of terrorists. According to him, the terrorist attack was carried out by radical Islamists. FSB Director Alexander Bortnikov noted that the Islamists alone could not have prepared this terrorist attack; they were helped. He noted that primary data from the detainees confirms the Ukrainian trail, and Russian intelligence services think that the United States, Britain and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack.
Putin noted that Russia was faced not just with a carefully cynically planned terrorist attack, but with a prepared and organized mass murder of civilians. The President emphasized that all perpetrators, organizers and customers of this crime will suffer fair and inevitable punishment.
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