FSB officers may have been in the concert hall during the terrorist attack in Moscow.
Manipulation. There are only assumptions on social networks that FSB officers could have been in the concert hall during the terrorist attack. Investigative journalism has already established that those alleged officials are ordinary men.
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“I liked how thousands of people seriously believed the theory for a couple of days that fake migrants stormed into a concert hall, shot everyone with blank cartridges, and then FSB officers in blue jackets pulled out real machine guns and shot everyone for real, and then quickly went after the fake migrants and arrested them”, Roman Dobrokhotov (here) commented on the speculations on the social network “X” that FSB officers could have been in the concert hall during the terrorist attack.
He is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist and former activist, founder and editor-in-chief of Russia-focused media The Insider (here).
Both he and other members of investigative journalism were quick to establish that the men named as FSB officers in the concert hall were ordinary citizens who might have also come to see the concert that night.
For example, it turned out that one “FSB man in a blue sweater” was an ordinary employee of the VNIIST oil industry, Alexei Druzhkov, who has nothing to do with the FSB (here).
He was seconded by investigative journalism ace Christo Grozev, who emphasized that the person named by the FSB officers does not belong to this organization (https://twitter.com/christogrozev/status/1772798376691548607?s=20).
The identity of another man named by FSB officials was also quickly revealed. “It’s really Dmitry Erokhin, a sports teacher from Troitsky,” announced R. Dobrokhotov (here).
The FSB in Russia has been accused several times of being involved in terrorist attacks that later benefited Vladimir Putin’s regime politically. The most famous was the bombing of apartments in 1999. before 2000 the elections during which V. Putin was appointed president. Numerous bombs destroyed apartment buildings in Moscow, and hundreds of people died in their sleep. The accusations were aimed at Chechen terrorists. Evidence later emerged that the FSB may have been behind the bombings, which Putin used to justify increasing Russia’s military involvement in the second Chechen war ( here ).
Also after 2002 The FSB was also believed to have played a role in the Dubrovka terror attack, when a group of militant Chechen terrorists took hundreds of hostages during the siege of the Nord Ost theater. Prominent Russian opposition journalist Anna Politkovskaya told state television host Vladimir Soloviev that she has sources claiming that the terrorist attack at the Dubrovka Theater was carried out by Russian secret services. A. Politkovskaya was later shot in cold blood outside her apartment during V. Putin’s birthday (here).
