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If too many unknowns and a specific context in Russia prevent any hasty comparison, the shock caused in the country by the terrorist attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow inevitably evokes the dark hours of November 13, 2015, after the Bataclan attack. in Paris.
There too, it was the day before a weekend, in a concert hall where a large and carefree audience had come to attend a rock concert.
The Russians, however, have a charged memory after having experienced a litany of deadly attacks in the capital, in the Caucasus and in several provincial towns.
Everyone remembers the hostage-taking at the Dubrovka theater in Moscow in October 2002 and the brutal assault by Russian special forces (128 dead).
And three years earlier, in September 1999, explosions devastated several apartment buildings in Moscow, killing 290 people.
Officially attributed to Chechen separatists, these attacks were…
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