‘This Is Not ISIS’: Rossiya Segodnya Editor-in-Chief on Moscow Concert Hall Attack
Ukraine and the West have resorted to false flag operations to persuade everyone that ISIS* was behind the terror attack in the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow, said Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Sputnik’s parent media group Rossiya Segodnya.
The head of the media group stressed that the names and faces of the perpetrators are already known to authorities and that the terrorists gave everything away during interrogation.
“It immediately became obvious why US media were claiming in unison that it was ISIS,” she said.
We already know the names of the perpetrators. We have already seen their faces and know that they “sing” during interrogation. (We do not publish the names as it is an ongoing investigation), Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya, Sputnik’s parent media group,… pic.twitter.com/U7MojnpIrF
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) March 23, 2024
Simonyan explained that the perpetrators were chosen to carry out the attack in a manner that would allow the West to persuade the international community that ISIS was behind the attack.
“Basic sleight of hand. The level of a railway thimble-rigger,” she added. “It has nothing to do with ISIS. It’s Ukrainians.”
She added that the enthusiasm displayed by Western media when they tried to persuade everyone that ISIS was responsible even before arrests were made gave them away completely.
“This is not ISIS. This is a well-coordinated team of several other, also widely known, abbreviations,” Simonyan concluded.
The shooting occurred on Friday evening in the Crocus City Hall concert venue just outside Moscow and was followed by a massive fire, claiming at least 143 lives.
In the hours following the attack, Western media insisted that radical jihadist organization ISIS was behind it, while Ukrainian officials also said that they had nothing to do with the tragedy.
However, suspects were detained in Russia’s Bryansk region near Ukrainian border. According to the data provided by law enforcing agencies, they had a support base on the other side of the border.
Moreover, while Kiev rushed to deny its involvement into the shooting, Ukrainian secret services have a long track record of terror attacks on Russian territory, from shelling in the Belgorod region to assassinations of political scientist Daria Dugina and journalist Vladlen Tatarsky.
‘Unconstitutional’: DOJ Announces Red Flag Center To Limit Gun Access From Americans
The Department of Justice announced the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center aimed at preventing individuals from purchasing or possessing firearms.
The DOJ’s announcement came just hours after the Senate and House passed a $1.2 trillion government spending bill on Saturday.
Justice Department Launches the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center
— U.S. Department of Justice (@TheJusticeDept) March 23, 2024
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From the DOJ announcement:
The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.”
ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.
In other words, the government will be granted the authority to confiscate firearms or prevent individuals from purchasing them if medical professionals, family members, or law enforcement arbitrarily declares that they pose a threat.
Reps. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), and many others raised the alarm over the creation of a “federal red flag center,” citing its lack of constitutional authority.
“What the hell is this evil? A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes,” Massie wrote on X Saturday.
What the hell is this evil?
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) March 23, 2024
A Federal Red Flag center;
We did not authorize this.
Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes. https://t.co/IkuK0aTeV8
“Merrick Garland just announced a massive Red Flag Operation that the DOJ will be running by using EVERY spy tool the US government has in order to violate American’s Second Amendment!! This comes right after Johnson fully funded Biden’s weaponized DOJ!” Greene wrote.
Merrick Garland just announced a massive Red Flag Operation that the DOJ will be running by using EVERY spy tool the US government has in order to violate American’s Second Amendment!!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene?? (@RepMTG) March 23, 2024
This comes right after Johnson fully funded Biden’s weaponized DOJ! https://t.co/tScHgTbcy8
No constitutional authority. No oversight. Created and run by bureaucrats who you didn’t hire, you can’t fire, and who don’t think they work for you. https://t.co/e0gPvJyrE5
— Mayor John Huffman (@JohnRHuffman) March 23, 2024
Another weapon of the DOJ pointed at the American people. Not to protect them but to harass & harm them! https://t.co/GQYWSbSAqN
— Jerrod Sessler for Congress ’24 ?? (@Sessler) March 23, 2024
This is an entirely unconstitutional innovation https://t.co/vD3lQup08K
— Phil Labonte, Talent Terrorist (@philthatremains) March 23, 2024
The timing of the DOJ’s announcement is curious — it comes just days after a federal judge granted illegal aliens the right to carry firearms.
Will this apply to illegal aliens as well or just Americans?
— Breanna Morello (@BreannaMorello) March 23, 2024
Report yourself.https://t.co/cxzxDu4mWw
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) March 23, 2024
Of course, we can already assume the DOJ plans to leverage this newly minted Red Flag Center against law-abiding citizens, not the throngs of armed illegal aliens who have no right to be in this country.
Video: First Interrogation of Suspected Terrorist in Moscow Concert Hall Attack
RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan has posted a video clip of the interrogation of one of the suspected terrorists behind Friday’s shooting spree at Crocus City concert hall near Moscow.
Earlier on Saturday, Russia’s FSB security service confirmed that eleven suspects, including four of the alleged perpetrators, had been detained in Bryansk Region, not far from the Ukrainian border.
The footage shows a bearded man lying on the ground and describing in broken Russian how he’d been paid to commit the terrorist attack.
The man says that before committing Friday’s atrocity, he had been to Türkiye. When asked what he did at the Crocus City concert venue on Friday evening, he replied: “I shot down… people.” The suspect added that he had committed the crime “for money,” detailing that he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,418).
The alleged perpetrator claimed that half the sum had already been transferred to his debit card.
The man also said that the curators, whom he supposedly does not know personally, had contacted him via Telegram messaging app, and arranged an arms cache for the assailants.
According to the suspect, he had been “listening to sermons… by a preacher” on Telegram for some time before being approached by the supposed masterminds of Friday’s attack “around a month ago.”
Shortly after publishing the first video clip, Simonyan posted more footage, in this instance depicting another suspected terrorist speaking through an interpreter.
The man describes how an acquaintance who he’d befriended on Telegram “ten to twelve days ago” had purchased a car, presumably with a view to using it as a taxi.
The terrorist attack, which, according to preliminary estimates, has left 115 dead and over 120 injured, occurred on Friday evening at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, on the western outskirts of the Russian capital. The concert venue, with an estimated capacity of 7,500, was nearly full when the terrorists burst into the building.
After gunning down dozens of fleeing patrons, the assailants then set fire to rows of chairs inside the hall. The blaze quickly engulfed much of the building, including its roof.
‘Biden Censorship Regime’ Blocks Media Access At Border Over Embarrassing Invasion Video That Shocked Nation
New York Post’s Jennie Taeris on the ground at the southern border wall and was the first to report the shocking invasion footage in El Paso, Texas, one day ago, when migrants attacked US National Guard troops. In response, the federal government has blocked media access to at least one stretch of the wall because the footage is extremely shocking and embarrassing for the White House.
“Media now being blocked from the scene where we captured a breach by hundreds of migrants in El Paso yesterday, how do we do our jobs now?” Taer posted on X on Friday evening.
Media now being blocked from the scene where we captured a breach by hundreds of migrants in El Paso yesterday, how do we do our jobs now? pic.twitter.com/0AnJ9K8VxT
— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) March 22, 2024
One day before, the NYPost journo captured this video that shocked the nation.
This is the moment when TX National Guard became overrun by migrants rioting to get across the border here in El Paso today
We were there and saw it all happen. Absolute chaos here. pic.twitter.com/VN6Kf663ie— Jennie Taer (@JennieSTaer) March 21, 2024
Somehow, delusional White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre blames Texas Gov. Greg Abbott for the migrant chaos. She believes the American people are stupid enough to believe her lies. However, we know Americans are fed up with the bullshit the White House peddles because polling data for this rogue administration has imploded.
No. This is not a deep fake. She thinks y’all are THAT stupid (or is gaslighting you)…https://t.co/GGUggL5JJr
— Dave Collum (@DavidBCollum) March 23, 2024
Of course, the Biden administration blames Trump. But ignore the radical progressives in the White House who reversed the former president’s border security measures and facilitated the greatest invasion of more than ten million migrants into this country. At the same time, a shadowy network of taxpayer-funded NGOs supported the invasion. Also, mega-corporations cheer as there will be a lot of cheap labor to exploit.
The Biden administration has responded to a viral video showing a large group of illegal immigrants charging Texas National Guard troops at the U.S. southern border, saying that former President Donald Trump is to blame for the ensuing “chaos.”
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) March 23, 2024
MORE: https://t.co/d9OXuaJChY pic.twitter.com/4EzspRptSv
Here’s what X users are saying about the government-enforced media blackout at the border:
Cuz you know, this administration is all about “transparency”.
— Julzee (@BalanceBeam100) March 22, 2024
The regime got embarrassed, and the optics are devastating for them, which is not allowed.
— JBrandonG ?? ❤️ TX (@ag4lyf) March 22, 2024
I wonder who will be the first arrested Press Member for disregarding this signage.
— Anthony Hughes (@CallMeAntwan) March 22, 2024
That’s not a law.
— Capitalist Mike ?? (@Capitalist_Mike) March 22, 2024
They sighted zero statutes on that sign.
Try showing up in drag. We are not allowed to tell them “no.”
— The Crazzzy Conservative (@canderson93) March 22, 2024
Biden Censorship Regime doing what they do
— Tony (@tonyphoneshome) March 22, 2024
Biden administration wants to hide the mass releases. They don’t like the media exposing them.
— John Fabbricatore (@JohnE_Fabb) March 23, 2024
KJP will gaslight everyone tomorrow and tell us how great of a job Biden is doing on securing the border.
Under this administration, ‘freedom of the press’ is quickly eroding as radical progressives in the White House utilize federal agencies and their leftist allies in corporate media to shield the truth from the masses while censoring any political opponent (this is what dictators in third world countries do).
Putin: Everyone Behind Moscow Terror Attack Will Be Punished
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday addressed the nation about the Crocus City Hall shooting, denouncing it as a “bloody and barbaric” terrorist attack and vowing to punish all involved. At least 115 people have been killed and over 120 wounded in Friday evening’s massacre.
In his video address, the president declared a national day of mourning on Sunday, March 24, to commemorate the victims of the attack.
Putin expressed his gratitude to all first responders, to law enforcement, and to ordinary citizens, too, who helped the victims of the attack. At the same time, the president stressed another effort is underway, focused on the prevention of any further attacks.
”In Moscow and Moscow Region, in all regions of the country, additional anti-terrorism and anti-saboteur measures have been introduced,” he announced, adding: “The main thing now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing a new crime.”
Vowing to punish all conspirators behind Friday night’s attack, Putin noted that, so far, 11 suspects, including four perpetrators who directly participated in the shooting spree, have been detained. The attackers were caught fleeing “towards Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window to cross the border was prepared on the Ukrainian side,” he added.
“All perpetrators, organizers and masterminds behind this crime will get just and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat: we will identify and punish everyone who stands behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this attack on Russia, on our people,” the president stated.
Crocus City Hall, in the town of Krasnogorsk in Moscow’s western outskirts, was attacked by gunmen on Friday evening. Just before a concert by Russian rock band Picnic, when the venue, which has an estimated capacity of 7,500, was nearly full. The attackers, armed with assault rifles, breached the venue entrances, shooting patrons at point-blank range then setting the building on fire, before fleeing the scene.
Moscow Terror Attack: Will It Cause WWIII?
Alex Jones breaks down the shocking terrorist attack that left over 100 dead at a concert hall outside Moscow and how it could escalate the Ukraine conflict into a full-blown world war.