Ten years ago, tragedy struck at the Dubrovka Theater Center when people watching the Nord Ost musical were taken hostage by armed terrorists headed by Movsar... 23.10.2012, Sputnik International
Ten years ago, tragedy struck at the Dubrovka Theater Center when people watching the Nord Ost musical were taken hostage by armed terrorists headed by Movsar Barayev. Commandos stormed the building three days later, killed the terrorists and released the surviving hostages.
Ten years ago, tragedy struck at the Dubrovka Theater Center when people watching the Nord Ost musical were taken hostage by armed terrorists headed by Movsar Barayev. Commandos stormed the building three days later, killed the terrorists and released the surviving hostages.
Ten years ago, tragedy struck at the Dubrovka Theater Center when 912 people watching the Nord Ost musical were taken hostage by armed terrorists headed by Movsar Barayev. The terrorists had small arms, ammunition and explosive devices.
Some spectators were allowed to call their families using cell phones and to tell them that terrorists would execute ten hostages for every dead or wounded terrorist.
On October 26, the Alfa commando unit and the Vympel commando unit of the Special Weapons and Tactics Center of the Federal Security Service started regrouping around the Theater Center.
At about 5:00 a.m. Moscow time, floodlights illuminating the main Theater Center entrance were switched off. The commandos started pumping sleeping gas inside the building. Two hours later, Presidential Aide Sergei Yastrzhembsky made an official statement that the hostage release operation was over. Photo: Commandos prepare to storm the Dubrovka Theater Center.
October 26, 2002, was declared a day of mourning for the terrorist act victims in the Russian Federation. Photo: Near the Dubrovka Theater Center seized by terrorists. October 2002.
In April 2004, the Moscow City Court sentenced brothers Alikhan and Akhyad Mezhiyev, as well as Aslan Murdalov and Khanpasha Sobraliyev, to 15-22 years in prison after finding them guilty of aiding terrorists and facilitating the Nord Ost hostage crisis.
The investigation of a criminal case regarding the hostage crisis at the Dubrovka Theater Center was suspended in June 2007 because it was impossible to establish the whereabouts of the suspects. In February 2011, a prosecutor’s office annulled the decision to stop the criminal investigation and ordered that the investigation be resumed.
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