Friday evening, when four armed men entered the “Crocus City Hall” concert hall in Moscow, to kill more than 130 people according to a non-definitive toll on Saturday evening, Russian society reacted in two different ways.
There are those who remember these buildings which exploded in 1999 and whose consequences contributed to the election of Vladimir Putin after being attributed to Chechen separatists.
But FSB agents were discovered planting bags of explosives in a building, suggesting a political plot.
Friday evening, many imagined manipulation by the security services with the 1999 attack in mind.
And then there are the others, like Svetlana, in her fifties, favorable to the Russian president.
“For me, this story is typically Ukrainian.
They shoot at the city of Belgorod well, it's the same thing!
» she estimates, terrified by the situation.
As a reflex after two years of war propaganda which obsesses society and which systematically presents Ukraine as the ultimate enemy, many Russians saw the hand of kyiv in this attack.
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