16-Year-Old Employee of Crocus City Hall Reveals Meeting with One of the Terrorists in Early March

A 16-year-old employee of the Crocus City Hall complex in the Moscow region, Alexander, has disclosed that he saw one of the terrorists involved in the March 22 attack, Shamsiddin Fariduni, at the complex in early March. In a conversation with the Shot Telegram channel, the teenager detailed the encounter and spoke about his conversation with the terrorist.

According to him, on March 7, he was working near the escalator area, explaining to attendees how to enter the auditorium, cloakroom, and other places for the concert of opera singer Alessandro Safina. He noticed a man behaving suspiciously, walking around, carefully examining everything, and asking several times about the building's layout.

Alexander pointed out that the terrorist spoke and understood Russian poorly. Lenta.ru adds that Shamsiddin Fariduni visited the Crocus City Hall several times with another terrorist, 19-year-old Muhamadsobir Fayzov. They attended a concert on March 8 during a performance by singer Grigory Leps and between March 9-11, when singer Shaman performed.

The Moscow Basmanny Court has placed four individuals involved in the Crocus Hall case under two-month detention: Muhamadsobir Fayzov, Shamsiddin Fariduni, Daleryon Mirzoev, and Saidakrami Rachabalizod. They are facing life imprisonment. It is noted that they will remain in custody until May 22. Two of them, Mirzoev and Rachabalizod, have fully admitted their guilt.

Shamsiddin Fariduni, 25 years old, is married and has an eight-month-old child. He is officially employed as a worker at a flooring factory in Podolsk and is registered in Krasnogorsk. The 32-year-old Daleryon Mirzoev has four underage children. He had temporary registration in Novosibirsk for three months, which has expired.

Saidakrami Rachabalizoda is 30 years old, married, and has one child. He claimed to have registration in Russia but does not remember where. Muhamadsobir Fayzov, 19 years old, was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair with the assistance of an emergency doctor due to injuries sustained during his arrest. He is unemployed and had previously worked as a hairdresser in Ivanovo.

All four accused of terrorism are citizens of Tajikistan. It is worth noting that as a result of the terrorist attack at Moscow's Crocus City Hall on the evening of March 22, 133 people have died, including children, with one Armenian citizen among the victims. Following the attack, March 24 was declared a nationwide day of mourning in Russia in memory of the victims.

Shamsiddin Fariduni.