How did the terrorists penetrated the Crocus City Hall and what route they moved inside? Restore the chronology

We have drawn up a scheme on the video of eyewitnesses

It is more convenient to study the scheme from this material on a computer, and not on the phone.

Based on the published video materials, Medusa restored the route of the terrorists in Crocus City Hall. From what is known as the evening of March 23, the picture looks as follows.

• The militants parked the car directly at the pedestrian crossing at the entrance No. 14 to the Crocus Expo exhibition center (Crocus City Hall is part of Crocus Expo). Mash telegram channel claims that this happened at 19:55 Moscow time. Medusa failed to independently confirm the time of shooting.
• For some reason, the militants did not drive directly to the concert hall, to which about 200 meters in a straight line remained. In theory, they could park the car so that the distance between the landing site and the hall would be less than 100 meters.
• Leaving the car, the terrorists immediately began to shoot - this is evident on the set from the DVR installed in one of the cars passing by. The guard, even if she was on duty at the entrance, had no time to resist.
• Once inside the room, the militants began to move south, continuing to shoot. From the moment of their landing at the entrance No. 14 to shooting at people gathered at the entrance No. 13 (this is the entrance through which you can get directly to the Crocus City Hall; it is located 120 meters from the parking lot of the car), it takes enough time for one of the visitors located on the top floor of Crocus Expo between the entrances No. 13 and 14, managed to start shooting.
• Passing the entrance No. 13, the militants fell directly into the Crocus City Hall lobby and continued to move to the hall, without ceasing to shoot. This moment is captured at least three videos from the far, southeastern part of the lobby. Visitors are hiding behind the chairs, some get out into the street through panoramic windows (on one of the videos of the windows are broken; they were probably smashed by visitors who were saved from terrorists, but there is no confirmation of this in the video yet).
• The next videos were shot inside the hall - even before the terrorists got there. The sounds of automatic shooting outside the hall are heard, some people slowly begin to evacuate.
• The first attested moment of shooting directly in the hall was removed by one of the visitors to the concert near the western staircase - the terrorist on the set is not visible, but the output of powder gases from the machine gun is visible. Whether all the militants went into the hall precisely through this entrance is unknown. Perhaps the rest took advantage of the central and southeastern entrance.
• In another video, the militants are already in the center of the hall at the sound engineering site and are firing from there in a western direction. One of the militants takes out a bottle of liquid and waters the chair in front of him. Then the first fire occurs-it is localized in the southeastern part of the hall, on the ground floor.
• In total, from the parking lot to the center of the Crocus City Hall hall, where arson was arranged, the militants passed no more than 300 meters-this distance can be overcome in four to five minutes even taking into account short stops. As far as one can judge from published data, terrorists did not meet any resistance in their path.
• The further route of the militants according to open data is still impossible to restore. There is oral evidence that, hiding from the scene of the crime, they deliberately shot down an eight -year -old child.

The originals of all the videos on which the chronology of the attack of terrorists is restored can be watched in our online .

Department "Parsing"