Tajik citizens massively leave Russia after terrorist attack near Moscow

"We receive a lot of calls. These are most likely not complaints about harassment, but fear of our citizens, panic, many want to leave. We are now monitoring the situation, we have more people coming (to Tajikistan) than leaving," said Shakhnoza Nodiri, deputy head of the Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of Tajikistan.

At the same time, according to anonymous sources, this week Tajikistan detained nine people suspected of involvement in the mass shooting, as well as the militant Islamist group Islamic State, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

Tajikistan's Labor Ministry expects the outflow of migrants from Russia to be temporary.

Terrorist attack near Moscow

On the evening of Friday, March 22, several armed men in camouflage opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert hall in Krasnogorsk, Moscow region. According to the latest Russian data, 143 people died as a result of the attack.

Russian security forces have detained four men who have been identified as the perpetrators of the attack. Russian dictator Vladimir Putin said that they allegedly wanted to escape to Ukraine, where a "window" had been prepared for them. A few days later, Alexander Lukashenko made a statement suggesting that the attackers had originally planned to cross the Russian border with Belarus.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack. The United States and a number of other Western countries confirmed that ISIS was involved and denied that Ukraine was involved.

Moscow's Basmanny Court arrested four suspects in the attack. They allegedly confessed to committing the attack. The men were brought to the court beaten, one of them was on a gurney accompanied by doctors. It is obvious that they were tortured.

The US State Department believes that Russia is trying to justify the war against Ukraine with the help of a terrorist attack.