“Everyone must be punished: the organizers, the perpetrators, the accomplices and those who ordered this horrible crime,” the press service of the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs quotes Mukhriddin as saying.
The terrorists’ goal was to introduce “an atmosphere of xenophobia and immigrant phobia” into Russian society; The organizers also tried to destroy “that interethnic and interreligious peace that was formed with great effort and many years,” said, in turn, the Russian Ambassador to Tajikistan, Semyon Grigoriev.
On March 22, a terrorist attack occurred at Crocus City Hall with gunshots and a large fire. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 144 people were killed, including six children, and another 551 people were injured.
