ISIS does not intend to be denied responsibility for the attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow and for the first time has posted gruesome images taken by the attackers themselves to demonstrate that it was its fighters who carried out the massacre.
As proof of the two claims of Friday and Saturday, the journalistic arm of the Islamic State Amaq published a video shot with a smartphone during the assault on Telegram.
One of the terrorists, who appears to be the leader of the cell, incites the others to "kill them and have no mercy" and twice utters the phrase 'Allahu akbar', God is great, raising his index finger, a gesture that indicates that God is one .
But without shouting, as in other Islamic State attacks.
The film lasts a minute and a half, disturbing scenes unfold in which several men armed with assault rifles and knives, with their faces deliberately blurred so as not to be recognized and their voices altered, move in the lobby of the Krasnogorsk concert hall, shoot bursts of machine gun fire, they talk to each other while they film themselves on video.
In an entrance and along a corridor you can see many bodies on the ground: the terrorists also aim point blank at the people already lying on the floor.
Or who try to save themselves by hiding behind a door.
Something attracts the attention of one of them, who approaches a supine, motionless man: he rages several times, repeatedly, trying to cut off his head with a knife.
In the end the terrorist gives up, moves, the man on the ground finds the strength to turn on his side, the blood flows onto the marble of the room.
Video Massacre in Moscow, video shot by terrorists in action at the Crocus Hall
The armed man, thin and wearing a T-shirt, with a sort of ammunition holder around his chest and a backpack, reaches the other attackers.
There is no excitement, the terrorists show no rush, they move with confidence, they seem to be masters of the scene, as if they were unable to see the arrival of the Russian leatherheads within a short time.
And in fact you can't see any security forces around, you can't hear any screams.
The images show a fire in the background.
The Crocus shooting is the bloodiest attack claimed by ISIS to date on European soil, as well as being the one that caused the highest number of victims in Russia - 137 so far - since the 2004 Beslan school siege.
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