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A man detained on suspicion of the deadly terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow said on Saturday (23 March) that he had shot people at the concert venue for money.
"I shot people at Crocus ... for money," the detainee said in a video of the interrogation published on Telegram by Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of RT and the Rossiya Segodnya media group.
At first, the man stated he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,400), but only half of the promised amount had been transferred to his card. However, later, the suspect said he had been promised about 1 million rubles.
The suspect explained that a month ago, he had been contacted via Telegram by an unnamed person and then provided with weapons. He also said he had decided to carry out the terrorist attack after a conversation with the "preacher's assistant." The suspect admitted that his curators had instructed him to kill all the people in the concert hall.
In the video, the detainee also confirmed the information that he had arrived in Russia from Turkey on March 4.
"There [in Turkey] ... the documents expired, and I crossed the border here," the detainee added.
Eleven people were detained in connection with the attack, including four who were directly responsible, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) said. All four were detained in the Russian region of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, a few hours apart, the FSB added.
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