Terror in Moscow

A terrorist commando, which experts point out is part of the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K), has claimed responsibility for the attack on the Crocus City Hall, a large performance hall on the outskirts of Moscow, where it has carried out one of the largest butcher shops of recent decades.

The murderers killed in cold blood and one by one, with automatic combat weapons, more than a hundred of the spectators who attended a concert, left many others badly injured and then set fire to the shopping complex.

A horror against which there is only the strongest condemnation and solidarity with the victims and with all the Russian people.

No one escapes the action of terrorism today, not even militarized and police regimes like that of Vladimir Putin, which normally dedicate the work of their law enforcement forces to repressing the opposition and controlling the population, instead of protecting it.

If jihadism has acted again, it has done so with the brutality and fanaticism that have characterized all of its attacks in recent years.

The attack also occurred in a leisure place taking advantage of the gathering of thousands of people who were simply preparing to have a good time.

Islamist radicalism has on many occasions exhibited its intolerance against the habits of infidels, a mark inseparable from its identity.

Russia had long become a target of the Islamic State for its collaboration with the Bashar al-Assad regime during the Syrian war, for the support it has given to the Taliban movement, one of its great enemies in a highly explosive region. , and for threatening their positions in areas such as the Sahel.

No one is unaware that the massacre adds greater instability to a global scenario fractured by the war in Ukraine and the dramatic situation in the Gaza Strip and that it returns prominence to the destabilizing agenda of the most aggressive jihadist sectors.

Russia has already suffered abhorrent attacks on other occasions that have claimed devastating numbers of dead and injured.

This is what happened in the Dubrovka theater in Moscow, 130 dead in 2002, or in the hostage taking at the Beslan school in 2004, 334 dead.

This time, the massacre occurs just after Putin received support at the polls in fraudulent elections with which he intends to reinforce his messianic project of recovering the old Russian imperial splendor that has had its most aggressive chapter in the invasion war that began. in Ukraine.

The British and American secret services had warned the Russian authorities of a possible attack, as had the Washington Embassy in Moscow, but Putin himself considered such messages as blackmail and intimidation against the population.

Dictatorships like Putin's know how to take advantage of all circumstances, and this time he has sought from the first hour to assign responsibility for the massacre to Ukraine, despite the fact that the Islamic State took very little time to claim responsibility for this new barbarity.

Terrorists only believe in the power of weapons, and this time they have targeted Moscow.

In a deeply unstable global scenario, it is still difficult to foresee the consequences that the fury of jihadism can provoke, which has once again unleashed its darkest omens, and the use that an autocrat like Putin makes for his benefit of the barbarism that this Friday suffered the Russian people.