DRAMATIC footage captured the moment ISIS terror suspects accused of slaughtering 137 in a Moscow concert hall were dragged in for interrogation.
Grisly videos of their interrogations have already been released including Putin’s spooks feeding one of the suspects his own sliced off ear.
APThe blindfolded man is dragged up the stairs ahead of further interrogations[/caption]
Masked officers aggressively pulled the men through corridors of Russia’s Investigative Committee
APFootage from Saturday showed the detainees with bloodied faces[/caption]
The four suspected gunmen were heavily bound and blindfolded as they were brought to Russia’s Investigative Committee for Interrogation.
The men were detained on Saturday by Russia’s security service, the FSB, after they were caught attempting to flee.
Two were apprehended after a car chase and two others fled into a forest before being arrested.
Russian authorities said the suspects were all foreign nationals and that 11 people in total had been detained.
They also said that guns and rounds of ammunition had been found at the venue and in a car that was used by the suspected gunmen to flee the scene.
Russian security services released gruesome footage of their interrogations throughout Saturday, including a clip of one suspect having his ear cut off and then force fed to him.
In another, one suspect appears to be missing his eye and is covered in blood.
A third suspect was filmed shivering next to a forest as armed Russian police shouted questions at him.
Russia is currently reeling from its worst terror attack in 20 years and the deadliest in Europe to have been claimed by ISIS.
On Friday night, four camouflaged shooters stormed Crocus City Hall and opened fire on the crowd before setting the venue ablaze, killing 137 and wounding over 120.
The death toll was raised from 133 to 137 on Sunday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the concert venue on the outskirts of Moscow.
Russian officials expect the death toll to rise further, with 110 people still in hospital and 40 in “critical” or “extremely critical” condition.
The Islamic State quickly claimed responsibility for the massacre and has since released a twisted 90 second video of the gunmen carrying out the attack.
Along with the footage, the terrorists wrote that the attack was “carried out by four IS fighters armed with machine guns, a pistol, knives and firebombs” as part of “the raging war” with “countries fighting Islam”.
It has been a national day of mourning in Russia as family and friends of those still missing wait for news of their loved ones.
Kremlin cronies have also been calling for Russia to reinstate the death penalty following what Putin described as a “barbaric terror attack”.
Despite an ISIS splinter cell taking responsibility, Russia has refused to officially declare the death cult responsible.
Instead, Moscow has continued to spew baseless claims linking Kyiv to the slaughter.
In a snarling national TV address yesterday, Putin stated that “all four direct perpetrators” had been found and detained.
However, the tyrant, 71, claimed – without evidence – that the shooters were “travelling towards Ukraine” where a “window was prepared for them” to cross the border.
He made no reference to ISIS’s claims of responsibility in his only public remarks on the attack.
One of the suspects appears with a bloodied face after having his ear cut off
Putin made his first ‘public appearance’ from the terror attack when he lit a candle in a church outside Moscow
Footage showed the moment the masked gunmen stormed Crocus City Hall on Friday night
Top Putin ally and security chief Dmitry Medvedev also refused to acknowledge the death cult’s claims.
Instead, he vowed that Russia will hunt down and kill “all those” behind a deadly shooting “wherever they are from and whoever they are”.
“We will avenge each and every one,” he said.
Late last night, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called Putin a “b*****d” for trying to seize the moment of national horror to point the finger at Ukraine.
“What happened yesterday in Moscow is obviously something that Putin and other b*****ds are just trying to blame on someone else,” he said.
“That low-life Putin, instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day, thinking about how to bring it to Ukraine.
“Everything is absolutely predictable.”
Washington on Sunday again rejected that Kyiv was involved in the attack.
“ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack,” said White House National Security Council spokeswoman Adrienne Watson. “There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.”
Britain yesterday warned Putin not to use the Moscow attack to provoke furore in favour of his bloody war in Ukraine, which has entered its third year.
A senior Whitehall security source told The Telegraph: “Putin’s desperation to put all of this on Ukraine is unsurprising, as he tries to further dupe the Russian people whilst pretending that there is no dissent within Russia.
“He must not use this confected connection as any sort of excuse for intensifying his illegal war in Ukraine.”
On Sunday, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt called the attack “horrific” but said Russia is using it to create “a smokescreen of propaganda”.
Ex-UK defence boss Ben Wallace also hit out at the Kremlin’s claims, stating that Putin has “lies dripping from his lips” and has convinced himself of a “warped” worldview.
Russian state TV has already been caught red-handed using a deepfake of Ukraine’s top security official‘s top security official appearing to brag about Kyiv’s role in the terrorist massacre.
The AI-generated video of Oleksiy Danilov is doing the rounds online in an apparent disinformation campaign to sow fury and confusion over who was behind the shooting attack last night.
CONCERT HALL MASSACRE
On Friday night, masked men in camouflage gear wielding automatic weapons stormed the packed Crocus City Hall – opening fire and hurling explosives into a crowd.
Some 6,000 people are believed to have been inside the venue watching Russian rock band Picnic when the bloodshed began.
The gunmen began shooting civilians at point-blank range – through glass doors, turnstiles and then the concert hall itself, traumatised witnesses said.
The bodies of whole families were found, dead mothers embracing their dead children, Russian media reported.
Horrifying accounts have emerged in the wake of the shooting attack.
Witnesses described how four armed men walked calmly towards the metal detectors at Crocus City Hall, firing their automatic weapons point-blank in short bursts and terrified civilians fell screaming in a hail of bullets.
Footage showed dozens of bodies, some in pools of blood, lay motionless on the marble floors and at the main entrance.
One survivor, Natalya, said: “The shots came from behind us.
“It was loud, like a firecracker blast, fireworks, but like an automatic burst. I could hear it right behind me, not far away.”
Then Natalya ran for her life. “Everyone was screaming; everyone was running.”
Another witness said: “We huddled in a corner at the entrance. He [gunman] came up and started shooting directly at people.
“They had black hair. They were shouting at each other and it was not Russian speech.”
Another woman told how she feigned being shot – which saved her life.
She said: “They [the terrorists] were standing at the exit, we didn’t go there, but they saw us.”
“One of them came running back and started shooting at us.
“I fell on the floor, and pretended to die. A girl next to me was killed.”
Witnesses told of leaping over fire, some with their clothes melting, to escape the blaze which caused the roof to collapse as over a 100 people hid in the basement.
It has also emerged that Putin rubbished warnings from the US and UK about an “imminent” terror attack just three days before.
British and US intelligence services alerted Russia earlier this month of the threat of a terror attack on Moscow – something the Kremlin sought to downplay, describing it as “provocative”.
ISIS released an alleged picture of the four gunmen posing by their black death cult flag before the attack
The terrorists shot victims at point-blank range before setting fire to the building
Pictures released by Russia of the four suspected gunmen on Sunday
ReutersA man puts a toy at a makeshift memorial to the victims of a shooting attack set up outside the Crocus City Hall concert venue[/caption]