Plenty of unverified movies have been circulating on the messaging app Telegram purporting to point out among the males concerned in final evening’s assault.
One video exhibits a person being held down whereas he’s requested questions concerning the assault. He says he was recruited on the Web to hold out the assault and claims he was promised 1m rubles (£8,600) to shoot concertgoers on the Crocus Metropolis Corridor. One other video claims to point out one of many “leaders” of the assault.
We should stress that, though these movies are being shared extensively on the Web, they continue to be unverified.
Quickly after the assault, photographs of the passports of some the alleged attackers have been shared on-line.
The Tajik minister of the inside was fast to place out a press release saying that, in at the least two instances, the lads in query couldn’t be accountable as that they had been in Tajikistan for months and had credible alibis.
All of this exhibits that, greater than 12 hours after the assault, confusion nonetheless abounds.
In his handle to the nation, President Putin mentioned the attackers have been getting ready to flee in direction of Ukraine, the place a “window” had been ready for them – with the assistance of Ukraine – to permit them to cross the border.
He has supplied no proof for these claims, and Ukraine has staunchly denied any involvement within the assaults.
So, till definitive proof is obtainable by the Russian authorities, it’s probably that unverified rumours and movies will proceed to flow into.
