Who Ordered Crocus?

A guilty conscience will give itself away.

There is no doubt left that the terrorist attack in Crocus was the work of Russian special forces “ordered” by the Kremlin and, possibly, Putin personally, in order to blame Ukraine for this on the basis of a “bloody performance” that was staged but not well. The Tajiks turned out to be small bargaining chips and got themselves into a story from which they can no longer get out.

They were approached by FSB officers who introduced themselves as supporters of the caliphate and offered to scare the Caffres with blank cartridges in the theater for half a million rubles (a large sum for a Tajik). In addition, they were given a car and assured that they had bought a “corridor” for escape on the Russian border with Ukraine, and there was no longer any border there during the war. They believed it. The Tajiks fired blanks in the theater, but the special forces in camouflage fired real cartridges. To hide the traces of the crimes, the FSB special forces very professionally set fire to the roof of the theater and, for more victims, closed all the emergency exit doors. The fire extinguishing system was also turned off.

The problem for Lubyanka is that in the digital age, covering up such a massacre is not easy. Random pictures taken by one of the concert spectators on his phone showed an abandoned machine gun with an attachment for firing blank cartridges. That was figured out. Then no less strange phenomena occurred. It took law-enforcers, as well as firefighters, more than an hour to get to Crocus. The special forces left in a car that did not show up on any of the surveillance cameras, and the Tajiks drove off in a Renault towards the Ukrainian border, where other special forces were waiting for them. However, having heard on the radio about the real scale of what had happened, the Tajiks realized the imminent mortal danger and changed the route, going towards Belarus. Only they had no idea about the GPS tracker embedded in the car. They were blocked at the very border with Belarus. We know what happened next. Now the task is for the investigation and the FSB, together with Putin, to get the Tajiks to admit that the orders for this terrorist attack are representatives of Ukraine. This was and remains the main goal of the performance.

Many have already forgotten by what methods Putin was brought to power: through explosions of residential buildings in Moscow and Volgodonsk, where more than 300 people died. In Ryazan, they made a mistake with “sugar”, but quickly “swept it under the rug”, explaining to the gullible man in the street about the supposed “exercises being conducted.” Under torture and pressure, Tajiks would admit anything in court, including that the customers were representatives of Ukraine. This is exactly what this crime of the Russian authorities against its people was intended for. Will the West be able to reject this? It’s still a big question and everything depends on its correct assessment and actions. In February 1933, the German Nazis set fire to the Reichstag to strengthen their power; today, Russian neo-fascists set fire to the Crocus. Today, Putin, at any cost, needs to show a fake judicial procedure and scream to the whole world — the West supports terrorists in Ukraine! Although he himself is terrorist number one. As people say, a guilty conscience will give itself away.

German Obukhov, Observer