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Moscow was hit by a terrorist attack on March 22, 2024. This assault, which Russian media began reporting around 8:15 p.m. in Moscow (5:15 p.m. GMT), was carried out by several armed individuals at Crocus City Hall, a concert hall located in Krasnogorsk, on the northwest exit of the Russian capital. A Russian rock band was about to take the stage at the time of the attack.
Attack in Moscow: what do we know about Piknik, the group that played on stage? “We can’t contact one of them, we don’t know if he left Crocus…”
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More than 110 people were killed and 115 injured Friday evening in an armed attack followed by a huge fire in a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow (the toll continues to rise), which was claimed by the jihadist group Islamic State (IS). “JJust before the start, we suddenly heard several machine gun bursts and a terrible woman’s scream. Then lots of screaming“, Alexeï, a music producer who was in the dressing room at the time of the attack, told AFP. He said he saw “terrible crowd movements“of spectators wanting to escape.
On stage was the Russian rock band Piknik. Officially created in 1981 in Saint Petersburg, the group – composed of former students of the Polytechnic School – was previously called Leningrad and launched in 1978. In 1982 their first album was released Smoke. Success was immediate in Russia and the group released nearly thirty symphonic rock albums. Their latest albums 30 light years And Three Fates were released in 2011.
Made up of Edmund Shklarsky, Léonid Kirnos, Marat Korchemny and Stanislas Shklarsky, the group was about to take the stage when the first machine gun shots were heard. “At this stage, the fate of the musicians remains unknown” indicate our colleagues from Figaro“But at least one of the four could not be reached by the concert director, Yuri Chernyshevsky, cited by the Russian news agency Tass. ‘We can’t contact one of them, we don’t know if he left Crocus,’ he explained, without specifying which one it was.“.
The bad memory of the Bataclan in everyone’s mind
The spokesperson for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, had previously denounced a “bloody terrorist attack” and one “monstrous crime“. This assault, which the Russian media began reporting around 8:15 p.m. in Moscow (5:15 p.m. GMT), was carried out by several armed individuals. Vladimir Putin, who was informed “from the first minutes” of the attack, according to the Kremlin, wished a speedy recovery to the victims and thanked the doctors, after receiving the reports from law enforcement officials and rescue services. He has not yet spoken publicly .
This tragic event unfortunately recalls others: the attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, which notably targeted the Bataclan concert hall, where the American rock group Eagles of Death Metal was playing.
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