Sochi resident accused of justifying terrorist attack in Crocus

A military court in Rostov-on-Don will hear the case of a young woman from Sochi, accused of justifying terrorism due to a post on a social network.

The accused resident of Sochi is 20 years old, she is accused of publicly justifying terrorism via the Internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for five to seven years of imprisonment).

The reason for initiating the case was a post that the girl published on her page on a social network on March 28. “She supported the terrorist attack that took place in March 2024 at Crocus City Hall,” the Krasnodar Territory Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement on September 4.

The case was investigated by the FSB Directorate for Krasnodar Krai, and the Southern District Military Court will hear the case, the department noted. Kavkazsky Uzel has no comments from the accused or her representatives regarding the security forces’ version of events.

On the evening of March 22, 2024, armed men broke into the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow Region, opened fire, and also committed arson. The FSB classified the incident as a terrorist attack. According to official data as of March 30, 2024, the attack on Crocus City Hall killed 144 people, 551 injured.

The terrorist attack in Krasnogorsk was one of the largest in the Moscow region in 30 years. From 1999 until the events in Crocus City Hall, there were five terrorist attacks there, each killing more than 40 people. The largest number of deaths, 130 people, was attributed to the seizure of the Theater Center on Dubrovka. "Caucasian Knot" maintains an updated chronicle of terrorist attacks committed in Russia since 1999. News on this topic is published by "Caucasian Knot" on the thematic page "Terrorist attacks in Moscow and the Caucasus".

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