A visitor to Crocus City Hall told how he neutralized the attacker

During the attack, one of the Crocus City Hall visitors named Mikhail was able to neutralize the attacker while he was reloading his weapon. The man’s interview was shown on the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered the man to be rewarded.

Mikhail came to the concert at Crocus City Hall with his wife. He said that one of the attackers “shot people in cold blood” and began moving towards him with his wife. “At that moment, when he caught up with us, he began to reload the weapon, I had a second to think, I pushed my wife away, and I ran around him to the left, grabbed the machine gun with my left hand and pulled it down, and with my right hand began to strike him on the head He began to go down, I grabbed him by the neck with my left hand and also continued to strike,” the man said.

Then another spectator ran up to the man, he struck several powerful blows, after which the attacker lost consciousness. Mikhail later left the shopping center with his wife. “It was terrible. I understood that if I delayed, he would kill both me and my wife,” the man said. He also added that it was only later that he realized that he may have saved the lives of dozens of people.

According to the latest data, the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall killed 133 people and injured more than 140. FSB officers detained 11 people involved in the terrorist attack, including four direct perpetrators.

The latest information about the terrorist attack in the Moscow region is in material “Ъ”.

Anastasia Larina