Russian police are making arrests across the country for comments about the attack. Not even a nine-year-old girl escaped

“The vigilance of the authorities affects both adults and children,” she wrote, citing an unnamed nine-year-old girl from the Tuva Autonomous Republic as an example. The police brought her in for questioning after the girl sent a question on a social network to an also unnamed woman about whether she would kill for money: “Hello, will you kill people for 500 thousand rubles?”

This amount, amounting to about 126,000 CZK in conversion, allegedly represented the promised fee of the terrorists for the massacre in Krasnogorsk.

The girl was apologizing profusely as the recipient threatened to inform the FSB, the successor to the dreaded Communist secret police, the KGB. During the interrogation, she claimed to have written her question “out of boredom”, according to the republican branch of the Ministry of the Interior, which released a recording of the incriminating conversation. The girl’s mother faces charges of child neglect, and the girl herself has been placed on a list that allows authorities to monitor the activities of these people as a counter-terrorism measure.

The perpetrators of the massacre near Moscow received money from Ukraine, the Russians claim. IS again claimed responsibility for the attack

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In another city of the Tuva Autonomous Republic, a 16-year-old boy was arrested for calling for “illegal actions” in a local cinema. During the interrogation, he defended that he was only joking and that he wanted to scare people, Reuters added.

In the Magadan region, the police detained a 75-year-old pensioner from the village of Ola on suspicion of publicly endorsing terrorism, the regional administration of the Ministry of the Interior announced. The pensioners were detained by police officers and agents of the FSB secret service with the support of the intervention unit.

The pensioner, whose identity the police did not reveal, published a post “approving the committed terrorist act” in a thematic group on the social network. A spokesman for the regional administration later specified that it was a massacre in a concert hall in the Crocus City Hall business center in Krasnogorsk. The Russian media usually write about the “Krokus attack”.

In the video taken by the police, the pensioner says he “did a stupid thing”, expresses regret and remorse for his actions. He said he wrote in a comment on the social network that “we should have weeded out more freebies”, as he called the concert hall visitors. He faces up to seven years in prison for this, Meduza wrote. For now, he is forbidden to leave his residence.

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This is not the first case of its kind. In the Bashkortostan Autonomous Republic, blogger Rustam Absalyamov was detained for a stream about a terrorist attack, during which the blogger – as the Ostrorozhno Novosti website claims – called for “blowing up Moscow”. The blogger was drunk during the stream, a spokeswoman for the Home Office said. Subsequently, Absalyamov apologized and claimed that he was only trying to attract attention.

Arrested while fleeing to Armenia

In St. Petersburg, a twenty-six-year-old Tajik man was charged with endorsing terrorism for comments he wrote under a pseudonym under reports about the attack. In the Lipetsk region, the police arrested the mother of a participant in the war against Ukraine, who compared the dead in Moscow with the dead in the city of Belgorod, shelled by Ukrainian troops in retaliation for Russian attacks. In the city of Nizhny Novgorod, in the Russian version of administrative proceedings, the police drew up a protocol with the parents of a fifteen-year-old student who made a statement in front of a video camera that she did not have to go to Moscow because of the attack in Crocus City Hall, so “I can continue drinking.”

A court in St. Petersburg on Wednesday remanded Nikolai Konashenkov, accused of endorsing terrorism, after he wrote on Facebook: “Why Krokus, and not the Kremlin?” The wife of the accused man, who tried unsuccessfully to fly to Armenia before his arrest, has since resigned from the prestigious post .

The terrorist organization Islamic State has repeatedly claimed responsibility for the attack in Krasnogorsk, which left at least 143 dead, but Moscow continues to voice its suspicions about Ukraine, against which it has been waging war for more than two years. Kyiv strongly denied any ties.