"We will not find out why they did not blow the hall"

October 23-12 years from the date of capture of hostages on the musical "Nord-Ost" in Moscow

It turned 12 years old in the theater at the Theater Center on Dubrovka in Moscow. On October 23, 2002, during the Nord-Ost musical, terrorists penetrated the center building and held more than 900 hostages for three days. In the early morning of October 26, the authorities organized a storm with the use of gas, the composition of which is classified. All terrorists were destroyed, and the rescue operation turned into the death of 130 hostages.

In December 2011, the European Court of Human Rights, having examined the collective complaint of the victims as a result of the Dubrovka terrorist attack, admitted that the Russian authorities violated the right of applicants to life. In addition to the appointment of monetary compensations, Strasbourg ordered Russia to objectively investigate the circumstances of the operation to release hostages, during which people were killed. However, the Russian Investigative Committee refused to institute criminal proceedings against officials responsible for conducting a special operation.

The action of the memory of those who died at the Theater Center on Dubrovka. 2013

“Over the 12 years, the investigation was quite thoroughly investigated by the terrorist attack itself, that is, the circumstances of how the weapons were imported, how the militants penetrated the capital, where explosive devices were produced,” says Dmitry Milovidov , a member of the coordination council of the regional public organization of the Nord-Ost terrorist acts, noting that this part It has been done quite high quality and professionally. However, the same European court in its decision drew attention to the fact that this one investigation alone is not enough. The authorities should also investigate the circumstances of the death of people, since there is reason to assume that some hostages died due to the inefficiency of the rescue operation.

Dmitry Milovidov

“Although the capture of hostages cannot be blamed for the authorities, the rescue operation was exclusively related to the competence of the authorities,” Dmitry Milovidov quotes the transfer of the 273rd Court of Decision of the European Court of Human Rights, “on the basis of this clause, it should be clear that the Russian Federation, if it agrees with the European Convention on the fact of the death of people and understand the degree The guilt and responsibility of all participants in the rescue operation, but this does not happen. "

Former hostages and their relatives tried to achieve such an investigation, but to no avail. Twice different compositions of the Moscow court, where the victims filed a complaint about the refusal to initiate a criminal case, made a side of the victims, but twice the Moscow City Court canceled these decisions, sending the case to revise. For the third time, the judge, having studied the text of the decision of the ECHR, said that there was no clear indication for the Russian Federation to make an investigation, and rejected the complaint.

“This is natural, Russia is a sovereign state, and all the decrees of the Eurosood and the Committee of Ministers of Europe are advisory, but, in accordance with the articles of the Convention, their implementation is mandatory for the Russian Federation,” explains Dmitry Milovidov. He believes that now the Russian authorities are not interested in understanding why, according to whose fault, so many people died during the operation, which was designed to save the hostages. “I will quote the words of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, told by him on those difficult days:“ We will not punish anyone, because they can’t save them anymore. ”Thus, the president covered negligence, and maybe the official crimes of the power ministers, including his beloved.

The previous investigator said: "We will never know why the hall was not blew up"

The fact is that the use of special equipment is gas, which, I remind you, had color, smell, was visible, did not have an instant effect, did not have antidote, the use of this gas led to the provocation of terrorists to response, which, fortunately, did not follow. The previous investigator said: "We will never know why the hall was not blew up."

Now all the hopes of the victims as a result of the terrorist attack in the theater center at Dubrovka for an objective investigation of the circumstances that led to the deaths of hostages are associated with the Committee of European Ministers. They expect that at one of the closest sessions the committee will consider the applicants' memorandum in the FinoGenes and others against the Russian Federation , the main requirement of which is to draw the attention of the Russian authorities to the need to fulfill the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in terms of investigating the fact of death.

The armed group burst into the theater center on Dubrovka on the evening of October 23, 2002. The second action of the musical Nord-Ost was going on, and more than 800 people were in the auditorium, when a man with an automaton, who ordered the actors to go down to the hall, entered the stage. The audience and the troupe were announced that they are hostages. At the same time, the terrorists allowed people to use mobile phones to inform their relatives about the capture and that the terrorists will shoot 10 people from among the hostages for each killed or wounded militant. Later, a demand for the authorities to terminate hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of troops from the republic was made.

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10 years of Dubrovka tragedy

In the next two days, politicians, journalists and public figures from the sanctions of the authorities conducted negotiations with terrorists, as a result of which several dozen hostages managed to free and provide a minimum of products and medicines that remained in the hall. But the Russian authorities did not go to long negotiations with terrorists. Early in the morning of October 26, the assault on the building began, before which the special services launched gas into the auditorium, the composition of which is still classified. Its use of the authorities was explained by the need to prevent explosions of bombs and “hunger belts” worn on suicide terrorists.

The doctors were not ready to provide assistance to hostages who actually exposed to a gas attack - the security forces did not warn them about the use of gas and did not name the antidote. The evacuation of hostages, according to many witnesses, was also poorly organized.

The Russian authorities still consider the hostage liberation operation to be successful and deny their guilt in the deaths of people. For 12 years that have passed since the attack on Dubrovka, only Zaurbek Talhigov has been held accountable. In October 2002, he responded to the call of the State Duma deputy Aslanbek Aslakhanov to the Chechens who are in Moscow: to come to the theater center, surround the building with a living ring and force terrorists to surrender. Talhigov (one of the few) came. All negotiations between Talhigov were held in the presence of special services employees, and later he was accused of aiding terrorists and sentenced to 8.5 years in prison.