{"id":134078,"date":"2026-03-12T20:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nineteen-jailed-over-deadly-moscow-concert-attack\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:02:44","slug":"nineteen-jailed-over-deadly-moscow-concert-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/nineteen-jailed-over-deadly-moscow-concert-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen jailed over deadly Moscow concert attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nineteen people have been jailed over an attack at a concert hall near Moscow that killed 149 people and left more than 500 injured \u2013 the deadliest mass shooting in Russia in two decades.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Russian military court handed life sentences to four gunmen and 11 accomplices. Four other defendants were given between 19 and 22 years, state media reported.<\/p>\n

The attack at Crocus City Concert Hall on the outskirts of Russia\u2019s capital on 22 March 2024 began with gunmen shooting before setting fire to the venue.<\/p>\n

An Islamic State (IS) group affiliate admitted it had carried out the attack and posted video evidence. Moscow has repeatedly accused Ukraine of involvement \u2013 an allegation strenuously denied by Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Some\u00a06,000 people had been at the auditorium in Krasnogorsk for a rock concert on the evening of the attack\u00a0when gunmen burst into the complex and started shooting randomly.<\/p>\n

The attackers then set fires which engulfed the venue and caused the roof to collapse. Many of the victims died from bullet wounds and some from smoke inhalation.<\/p>\n

The four men convicted of carrying out the shooting have all been identified as citizens of Tajikistan.<\/p>\n

The other 11 who received life sentences were found guilty of helping the gunmen with money and weapons or of having links to terrorist groups.<\/p>\n

Four others were jailed for selling a car to the gunmen and helping them rent a flat.<\/p>\n

It is not clear if they will appeal the sentences.<\/p>\n

The trial has been conducted behind closed doors and there are likely to have been confessions made under duress.<\/p>\n

When the men first appeared in court two years ago,\u00a0they showed visible signs of having been beaten\u00a0and one was brought into court in a wheelchair.<\/p>\n

IS-K, the group which admitted the attack, is an offshoot of IS which seeks to establish a Muslim caliphate across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Iran.<\/p>\n

Graphic video released by IS, showing attackers firing on the crowd inside the concert hall, was verified as genuine by the BBC.<\/p>\n

Russian officials have continued to claim that Ukraine was linked to the attack \u2013 the neighbour Russia has been at war with since it launched a full-scale invasion in 2022. No evidence has been provided for the claims.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials fiercely deny any connection.<\/p>\n

President Volodymyr Zelensky previously said it was \u201cabsolutely predictable\u201d that Russian President Vladimir Putin would blame it on Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Nineteen people have been jailed over an attack at a concert hall near Moscow that killed 149 people and left more than 500 injured \u2013 the deadliest mass shooting in Russia in two decades. A Russian military court handed life sentences to four gunmen and 11 accomplices. Four other defendants were given between 19 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}