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Concert Tour Q 2000～2001

【Concert Tour Q 2000～2001】全曲解説&見所紹介レポート

01. OPENING

02. その向こうへ行こう, 03. 光の射す方へ, 04. ニシエヒガシエ, 05. 終わりなき旅, 06. heavenly kiss, 07. クラスメイト, 08. ロードムービー, 10. surrender, 11. つよがり, 12. 十二月のセントラルパークブルース, 13. スロースターター, 14. everybody goes-秩序のない現代にドロップキック-, 15. 名もなき詩, 16. center of universe, 17. not found, 18. everything is made from a dream, 19. hallelujah, 20. 友とコーヒーと嘘と胃袋, 21. 口笛.

「 Concert Tour Q 2000-2001 」 発売日（DVD）2001.08.22

本ツアーはBIGLOBEの提供でインターネット生中継が行われました。 BIGLOBEとのコラボは「Mr.Children Alternative」（CMソングに『Everything is made from a dream』が起用）と題され、ツアー前から行われていたプロジェクト。 BIGLOBE会員限定で『Concert Tour Q 専用サイト』を見ることができるキャンペーンも行われました。

本作品にはインターネット生中継された2001年2月4日の「さいたまスーパーアリーナ」公演の模様が収録されています。

01. OPENING 02. その向こうへ行こう 03. 光の射す方へ 04. ニシエヒガシエ 05. 終わりなき旅 06. Heavenly kiss 07. クラスメイト 08. ロードムービー 09. 抱きしめたい 10. Surrender 11. つよがり 12. 十二月のセントラルパークブルース 13. スロースターター 14. everybody goes-秩序のない現代にドロップキック- 15. 名もなき詩 16. CENTER OF UNIVERSE 17. NOT FOUND 18. Everything is made from a dream 19. Hallelujah — ENCORE — 20. 友とコーヒーと嘘と胃袋 21. 口笛

● 総メンバー数『7人』

• Mr.Children
• SUNNY【キーボード&コーラス】
• 浦清英【キーボード&サックス】

・『Everything is made from a dream』の「 最初は人間の純粋で小さな夢から始まったものが核兵器になったりする 」がツアーセットの在り方、照明プラン、映像プランに意味を持たせている。

・球状のライトはニューヨーク「グランドセントラル駅構内」をイメージ。

このツアーは前回『 TOUR ’99 DISCOVERY 』で得た手応えを引き継ぐ形で、比較的シンプルなステージセットで構成されました。 つまり今回もスクリーン映像はほぼなしです。 『TOUR ’99 DISCOVERY』では音を届けることに重点を置いて開催されましたが、今回はそこにパフォーマンス要素をプラスしたようなライブとなります 。

冒頭スクリーンに 『BEYOND MY WISH』 の文字が浮かび上がります。 直訳は「私の願いを超えて」 『Tour Q』は”その向こうへ行く”というメッセージを掲げて幕を開きます。 そしてそれは1曲目（02.）へと繋がります。

今思えばマニアックな曲から攻めてきていますね。

ALBUM『 Q 』は作曲表記が”桜井和寿”ではなく”Mr.Children”表記の曲が数曲あります。 その中の一つが『その向こうへ行こう』です。 前回のツアーに続きバンドや音に拘ったライブ。 その新たな方向性を示す意味での1曲目だったのかと思います。 【見所① 4曲で創られた物語】

では ”その向こうへ行こう” の ”その向こう” とはどこなのでしょうか？ Mr.Childrenは活動休止前、海の奥深く”深海”で苦しんでいました。 そんな彼らの元に、やっと光が射したのです。 2曲目（03.）へ↓↓↓。

アルバム「Q」のCDジャケットで桜井さんは潜水服を着用しています。 そこに込められた意味は 『深海からの脱出』

彼らが向かう”その向こう”は光の射す方でした。

原曲では最後に1番2番のサビを繰り返しますが、何故か2番の繰り返しはカットした演奏となっています。 さて、深海から脱出した彼らは何処へ向かうのか？ 3曲目（04.）のタイトル↓↓↓

タイトルだけでストーリーが出来上がっています。 “西へ東へ自由を求め旅に出た”というイメージでしょうか。

「この指とまれ」で指をしゃぶるシーンがとても印象的です。 そしてその旅には終わりがないことを悟ります。

かなりテンポを落として桜井さんのエレキ弾き語りで始まります。 キーボードが入り、2番からはバンドサウンドというアレンジ。

このツアーから最後の「終わりなき旅」のフレーズを3回繰り返すようになりました。

曲の「2番サビ手前〜2番サビ全部」カメラワークが桜井さんの横顔に固定されます。 派手に動き回るカメラワークもカッコイイですが、一切動かないというのも逆に見入ってしまいます。

「終わりなき旅」のライブ映像は毎回心に残ります。 この横顔もその一つです。

ここから日常へ戻るような選曲。 アレンジは基本的には原曲通りですが、アウトロが熱いです。 【見所③ クラスメイト へバトン】 次曲のクラスメイトのイントロへ、バトンを渡すように綺麗に切り替わります。 繋ぎが自然過ぎて少しビックリします。

『 Heavenly kiss 』から渡されたバトンを受け取ります。 原曲ではフェードアウトして終わる最後の 「from sunday night〜」 を桜井さんの歌のアレンジで完結させます。 セクシーでとても素敵です。

街灯が2秒後の未来を照らし オートバイが走る 等間隔で置かれた 闇を越える快楽に また少しスピードを上げて もう1つ次の未来へ

『Q』発売当初からこのフレーズは自画自賛していました。 自信が絶賛する歌詞をどう歌うのか、ワクワクしながら聴いた記憶があります。

原曲に沿った演奏。 間奏のサックスは浦清英さんが生演奏しています。

桜井さんの歌う姿勢に注目。 ほぼ終始腕を後ろに組んで歌っています。 ある意味とても新鮮なパフォーマンス。

今では歌をアレンジして歌うことが多いですが、初披露ということもあり、原曲のメロディーで聴けるのはある意味レア。

【見所 ④ もったいない！】 めちゃくちゃ盛り上がるのにその後披露されていないのがもったいない1曲です。

珍しくキーが1音下げ（半音はよくやる）。 その分歌に余裕が出る為か、オリジナルをかなり崩してノリノリで歌い上げます。

聴いててテンションが上がるので今後も是非起用して頂きたい1曲です。

こちらも今ではレア楽曲。 「隙を観て奪い取る」 のフレーズが超絶カッコ良いです。 アウトロをアレンジして次のピークへ。

本編の盛り上がりはピークです。 アウトロでは次曲との間を一切開けずに会場をヒートアップさせていきます。

お馴染みの「ドンタドッタッタ」の『名もなき詩』へ。 Mr.Childrenのライブは曲の繋ぎ方がとにかく上手すぎる!!

ここから最後までALBUM『Q』の曲で締めます。 『CENTER OF UNIVERSE』では途中からハンドマイクに切り替える桜井さんが印象的ですが、その流れはこの初披露から続いています。 更に 「僕こそが中心です」 もこの頃から 「君こそが中心です」 とアレンジされています。

桜井さんの”つぶやき”のようなAメロで始まる『 NOT FOUND 』 ライブ初披露は半音下げで演奏されました。 以降本編最後まで全ての楽曲が半音下げで演奏されています。

【見所⑤ アトム 登場 】

ここでオープニング以来のスクリーン登場。 見所はもちろん語りパート。 なんと画面には鉄腕アトムが映し出され、その声優ご本人（清水マリ）が語り始めます。 CDよりもセリフが追加されているのでご紹介します。

浅い眠り レム睡眠の中で僕らは様々な夢をみる 眠りから覚めた時、忘れ去られる夢もあれば、 いつまでも胸の中に住み続ける夢もある 夢、それは記憶の断片 そして未来へのメッセージ でも そもそも人間だけが夢を見ているのだろうか？ 例えば 中央分離帯の街路樹は もっと肥沃な土地でのびのびと光合成をする夢を見たりはしないのだろうか？ 例えば 今まさにその殻を破ろうというセミは 来年、再来年の夏まで飛び続ける夢を見たりはしないのだろうか？ 夢、 それは私たち人間だけに与えられた 神からの贈り物なのだろうか？ もしそうだとすれば、 いつ頃から僕らは 夢を見ることを許されたのだろうか？ 夢、夢って あたかもそれが素晴らしい物のように あたかもそれが輝かしい物のように 僕らはただ賛美してきたけれど 実際のところどうなんだろう？ 何十万人もの命を一瞬で奪い去った核爆弾や細菌兵器 あれだって最初は 名もない化学者の純粋で 小さな夢から始まっているんじゃないだろうか？ そして今また僕らは 僕らだけの幸福の為に 科学を武器に 生物の命までをもコントロールしようとしている 一体どこまで行けばいいのだろう？ どこに行くというのだろう？ 一体何ができるのだろう？ 何をすべきなんだろう？ Concert Tour Q 2000～2001 Everything is made from a dream

そして会場が一つとなり、行進が続いていくのです。 “Everything is made from a dream”という楽曲の奥深さを実感する『Tour Q』唯一の演出でした。

本編ラストは『Hallelujah』 当時は Mr.Children最大のラブソング とまで言わしめた楽曲。 客席は微動だにせず聴き入っています。 最後はもちろん大合唱で一旦幕を閉じます。 後のMr.Children Tourにて、大きな役割を果たす楽曲になろうとは知る由もなく…。

アンコールです。 【見所⑥ 筋肉に変えてしまおう 】 ここまでライブ化けするとは誰が予想出来たでしょうか？ 間奏でのコール&レスポンス、メンバー紹介、大幅なアレンジ、全てが素晴らしいです。 特にコール&レスポンスの煽り方が面白い。 明らかにレスポンス出来ないコールで煽り、観客も乗っかろうとするけど全然歌えない（笑） 挙げ句の果てに桜井さんの「ばかみた〜い♡」が可愛い過ぎる（笑） 会場も大きな笑い声に包まれます。 メンバー紹介もカッコ良い。 「We are Mr.Children」 鳥肌モノです。 そして後半では歌詞も追加されています。

例えばそれは　やり場のない怒り 例えばそれは　こらえきれない悲しみ 飲み込んで　消化して　全部エネルギーに変えてしまおう 例えばそれは　愛する人との別れ 例えばそれは　突然訪れる天変地異 飲み込んで　消化して　全部筋肉に変えてしまおう Concert Tour Q 2000～2001 友とコーヒーと嘘と胃袋

更に最後の「筋肉に変えてしまおう」のフレーズで見せる桜井さんの”マッチョポーズ”。 良い体つきをしております（笑） Mr.Childrenライブ映像の中でもトップに入るパフォーマンスです。 最高過ぎる。

ちなみに別の会場では”ちょんまげのカツラ”を被って歌っていた所もあったそうです。

最後の最後はヒットシングルでしんみりと幕を下ろしました。 演奏終了後にメンバー全員が挨拶をして、ライブは終了です。 毎度の決め台詞「また会いましょう」。 この時既に彼らの中で 『 TOUR POPSAURUS 2001 』 の開催が決定していたそうです。

見所①「 4曲で創られた物語 」 『その向こうへ行こう』 『光の射す方へ』 『ニシエヒガシエ』 『終わりなき旅』

見所②「横顔」 『終わりなき旅』

見所③「クラスメイトへバトン」 『Heavenly kiss』 『クラスメイト』

見所④「もったいない！」 『十二月のセントラルパークブルース』

見所⑤ 「アトム登場」 『Everything is made from a dream』

見所⑥ 「筋肉に変えてしまおう」 『友とコーヒーと嘘と胃袋』

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Footage that appears to show the torture of suspects in the Moscow concert hall attack during which more than 130 people were killed is circulating in Russia , although the Kremlin is refusing to answer questions about the videos. A total of 97 people remain in hospital, officials said.

One of the films appears to show security forces cutting off the ear of one of the suspects and trying to feed it to him, while another shows a man apparently being subjected to electric shocks to his groin. A third shows security forces beating a man with their rifle butts and kicking him as he lies in the snow. Isis has claimed the attack , and has released graphic video footage of the attackers firing on the crowd inside the concert hall .

Four men appeared in court over the weekend and were charged in relation to the attack. They appeared to have been beaten, and one of the suspects had heavy bandaging to his right ear. Another had to be brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair.

The four suspects were named by Russian authorities as Dalerdzhon Mirzoyev, 32, Saidakrami Murodali Rachabalizoda, 30, Shamsidin Fariduni, 25, and Muhammadsobir Fayzov, 19.

The men the court identified during the proceedings as Mr Mirzoyev and Mr Rachabalizoda both had black eyes. Mr Rachabalizoda appeared with the bandage on his right ear. The face of the man identified as Mr Fariduni was badly swollen.

Mr Fariduni said in an interrogation video published on social media that he had arrived from Turkey on 4 March. He was trembling while being questioned by the side of a road, with his hands tied behind his back. He said that he had “shot people” in Crocus City Hall “for money”, having been offered 500,000 roubles (£4,300) by a person he did not identify.

The man named as Mr Fayzov appeared to lose consciousness as he was brought into court in a wheelchair. Photographs circulating online on Sunday appeared to show Mr Fayzov with one of his eyes missing.

The men were officially identified as citizens of Tajikistan, Russia’s Tass state news agency said. A court statement on the Telegram messaging service said Mr Mirzoyev had “admitted his guilt in full”, while Mr Rachabalizoda had also “admitted guilt”. All four were remanded in pre-trial custody until May.

The men were caught about 14 hours after the attack in the southern Bryansk region, around 400km (250 miles) southwest of Moscow, when they fled a vehicle and tried to reach a nearby forest.

When asked about the videos showing alleged torture of the suspects, the Kremlin’s spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov, refused to comment. On Tuesday, Russia's commissioner for human rights has called the use of torture against detainees unacceptable.

"Despite the fact that the detention of criminals can be very critical, and criminal law stipulates that actions taken during arrests which cause harm do not entail liability, it is absolutely unacceptable to use torture on detainees and defendants," the commissioner, Tatyana Moskalkova, was quoted as saying by the Russian state-run TASS news agency. The Russian constitution outlaws torture, and Russia is also part of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.

Russian authorities say at least 139 people were killed in the Moscow attack and close to another 200 were injured. It constitutes the deadliest attack claimed by Isis in Europe – and the worst such attack in Russia for two decades.

On Monday, French president Emmanuel Macron said that the Isis branch behind the attack, known as Khorasan Province (Isis-K), had previously attempted attacks on France, as he agreed with the US assessment that Isis-K was behind the act of terror. Isis-K frequently criticises Russian president Vladimir Putin in its propaganda.

“The information available to us ... as well as to our main partners, indicates indeed that it was an entity of the Islamic State [Isis] which instigated this attack,” Mr Macron said during a visit to French Guiana. “This specific group ... had over the past months attempted attacks on our soil,” he said.

French prime minister Gabriel Attal later said these foiled attacks had included a plot involving the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. “The claim of responsibility for the [Moscow] attack by a branch of Islamic State that planned attacks in European countries including France prompted us to increase the Vigipirate [security threat assessment] to its highest level,” Mr Attal said, speaking from a Paris railway station about the decision to raise the terror threat level on Sunday night. “We will deploy exceptional means everywhere on [French] territory,” he added.

On Monday, Italy’s interior ministry said it was also stepping up police activity. “In anticipation of the upcoming Easter holidays, an intensification of surveillance and control activities by the police has been agreed,” a statement said, adding that special attention would be given to “all sensitive targets”.

Russian MPs have called on those found guilty of the attack in Moscow to face capital punishment. Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Mr Putin who served a term as Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012 and has become increasingly strident since Russia sent its troops into Ukraine two years ago, discussed the detained suspects on his Telegram channel on Monday.

“They have been caught. Kudos to all who were chasing them. Should they be killed? They should. And it will happen,” he wrote.

“But it is more important to kill everyone involved. Everyone. Those who paid, those who sympathised, those who helped. Kill them all.”

Russia’s prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, said that “the perpetrators will be punished” and that “they do not deserve mercy”.

Russia has had a moratorium on capital punishment since the 1990s, but it remains on the statute book. No executions have been carried out since 1996, when the president at the time, Boris Yeltsin, issued a decree establishing the moratorium, which was explicitly confirmed by the Constitutional Court in 1999. Russia’s penal code currently allows for the death penalty for five offences: murder, genocide, and attempted murder of either a judge, police officer or state official.

“Now many people are asking questions about the death penalty. This topic, of course, will be deeply, professionally, meaningfully studied,” Vladimir Vasilyev, parliamentary leader of the United Russia faction in the lower house of parliament, was quoted by Tass media as saying on Saturday.

However, Mr Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin is “not taking part in this discussion at the moment”.

Russian officials have been slow to acknowledge the claim by Isis. On Sunday, Mr Putin instead claimed that the attackers were trying to reach Ukraine, though he did not offer any evidence of this. Mr Putin said some people on “the Ukrainian side” had been prepared to spirit the gunmen across the border.

Ukraine has denied any role in the attack. Its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has accused Mr Putin of seeking to divert blame for the attack by mentioning Ukraine, which is defending itself against an invasion by Russian forces that Mr Putin launched in February 2022.

Mr Peskov said in his news conference on Monday that it was inappropriate to comment on the Isis claim until an investigation had been completed. Later in the day, Mr Putin called the attack an act of terrorism “committed by radical Islamists”. But he again tried to pin some of the blame on Kyiv.

The White House strongly dismissed the suggestion of a link to Ukraine. “There was no linkage to Ukraine. This is just more Kremlin propaganda,” said White House spokesperson John Kirby.

Mr Macron warned Russia against trying to exploit the attack by blaming Ukraine. “I think that it would be both cynical and counterproductive for Russia itself and the security of its citizens to use this context to try and turn it against Ukraine,” he said, adding that France had offered help to find the culprits.

“We have offered to increase cooperation with the Russian [intelligence] services and our partners in the region, so that the culprits can be found as quickly as possible and so that we continue to fight effectively against these groups which are targeting several countries,” Mr Macron said.

Mr Peskov said Russia’s security services had not accepted any help from the West. “No, our security services are working on their own; no assistance is currently on the table,” he said. Eleven people have been detained in connection to the attack so far, according to Russian officials.

Counterterrorism researcher Lucas Webber said that Isis had been “focused on outreach efforts to central Asia since the mid-2010s, finding success in recruitment, fundraising, and violent incitement”. He added that Isis-K had been the terror group’s “most internationally minded branch”, and that it had created Uzbek, Tajik, and Russian-language media wings to build support. He added that Isis-K-linked plots had been foiled in Kyrgyzstan, Germany, Austria, and Sweden since last year.

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This blog has now closed. You can read our full report on the attack on Crocus City Hall in Moscow here

• 23 Mar 2024 Summary
• 23 Mar 2024 Islamic State solely responsible for Moscow attack, no Ukraine involvement - White House
• 23 Mar 2024 Zelenskiy speaks out
• 23 Mar 2024 Russian TV airs footage of terrorist attack suspects
• 23 Mar 2024 Interim summary
• 23 Mar 2024 Security experts see credibility in Islamic State claims of responsibility for attack
• 23 Mar 2024 US told Russia Islamic State was planning to attack Moscow - report
• 23 Mar 2024 Summary of the day …
• 23 Mar 2024 Death toll in Crocus City Hall terror attack rises to 133
• 23 Mar 2024 Three children still in hospital – one in critical condition
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin praises work of emergency services and bravery of people at Crocus City Hall
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin: all four attackers were detained while heading to Ukraine after attack
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin declares Sunday a national day of mourning
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin: Russian Federation will 'identify and punish everyone who prepared the terrorist attack'
• 23 Mar 2024 Podolyak: 'any attempts to connect Ukraine to the terrorist attack are absolutely untenable'
• 23 Mar 2024 Erdoğan condemns attack and says terror is 'the common enemy of humanity'
• 23 Mar 2024 Ukrainian military intelligence official: claim Ukraine linked to attack 'another lie' from Russia
• 23 Mar 2024 Russia’s FSB tries to link Ukraine to Moscow attack despite IS claiming responsibility
• 23 Mar 2024 Cameron: UK condemns Moscow attack 'in the strongest terms'
• 23 Mar 2024 Death toll in Crocus City Hall attack rises to 115
• 23 Mar 2024 Russia's FSB confirms it has arrested 11 suspects
• 23 Mar 2024 Crocus City Hall attack – what we know so far …
• 23 Mar 2024 Putin told some suspects detained as Crocus City Hall attack death toll rises to 93
• 23 Mar 2024 Kremlin: Putin has been told that 11 suspects have been detained
• 23 Mar 2024 107 people in hospital after Crocus City Hall attack – Russian state media
• 23 Mar 2024 Opening summary …

Death toll in Crocus City Hall terror attack rises to 133

Tass reports the Russian Investigative Committee has announced that the death toll from Friday’s shooting and arson terror attack at the Crocus City Hall has risen to 133.

41 people have been identified and named as killed by the ministry of health. 107 people are in hospital.

The Islamic State on Saturday released on its Telegram channels what it said is footage of the attack on a concert hall near Moscow, Reuters reports.

The 1.31-minute video shows a close-up view of one of the gunmen opening fire on several people as he enters what appears to be the concert hall.

Hello to our liveblog readers coming to us for news on the massacre at a pop concert on the outskirts of Moscow late on Friday.

It’s just after 1am in Moscow and the official death toll remains at 133. Some of the wounded and injured have been described as being in critical condition, and many people still do not have confirmation of the whereabouts of their loved ones. Victims were taken to several hospitals for treatment.

The burnt-out shell of the Crocus City Hall building, where four gunmen are reported to have shot people and then set off fire bombs, is still smouldering and firefighters and investigators remain on the scene. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack, but while Russia says it has the attackers in custody, it has made no mention of the Islamic State and has only claimed, without evidence, that Ukraine was involved, which Ukraine denies.

Here’s where things stand:

US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson issued a statement on Saturday saying that the Islamic State bears sole responsibility for the deadly attack near Moscow on Friday and there was no Ukrainian involvement “whatsoever”. The US government a few weeks ago shared information with Russia about a planned attack in Moscow and issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on March 7, Watson added.

The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy , used his nightly public address to condemn Russia for claiming that Ukraine had been involved in the attack and was seeking to help the attackers escape. Calling Russian president Vladimir Putin a “low-life”, Zelenskiy added: “What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else … They always have the same methods.”

Russian television has aired footage of the detention and questioning of four men the authorities say are suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on a Moscow-area concert hall. Russia’s Channel One television showed footage of four suspects and their damaged white Renault car. It said they had been captured by special forces in the village of Khatsun in the western Bryansk region, which is close to borders with Ukraine and Belarus.

Neither Vladimir Putin , nor any of his government representatives, have responded to claims by the Islamic State religious terrorist group that they were responsible for the attack on a pop concert in the Moscow suburbs on Friday night.

Several security analysts have said that the claim of responsibility by the Islamic State for the massacre of Russian concertgoers appears to be plausible and fits with a pattern of previous marauding attacks by Islamist militants.

The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken , currently in the Middle East, issued a statement on Saturday afternoon that the US condemns “terrorism in all its forms and stand[s] in solidarity with the people of Russia in grieving the loss of life from this horrific event”. He called the attack “a heinous crime”.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said on Saturday that four of its militants carried out an attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb that Russian authorities said had killed at least 133 people, and that they used firebombs among its weapons

The four suspected gunmen detained after the deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow are all foreign citizens, Russia’s interior ministry said.

US intelligence gathered information just this month that ISPK, a branch of the Islamic State group based in Afghanistan, was eyeing Russia for a terrorist attack, the New York Times reported .

Putin told the Russian people that Ukraine is linked to the Crocus City Hall terror attack. In a video address lasting five-and-a-half minutes on Saturday, the newly re-elected Russian president said Russian security forces believed they had apprehended all four direct participants in the attack, who they said were caught heading for Ukraine, which they said was preparing to receive them over the border. Kyiv has rubbished the claims.

Putin described the attack as a “bloody, barbaric terrorist act”, and said the victims were “dozens of peaceful, innocent people – our compatriots, including children, teenagers and women”. He said the Russian Federation would “identify and punish everyone who prepared the terrorist attack”.

Ukraine has denied any link to the attack. Presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak said attempts to connect the two were “absolutely untenable”. He said: “Ukraine has not the slightest connection to this incident. Ukraine has a full-scale war with Russia and will solve the problem of Russia’s aggression on the battlefield.” Neither Putin nor the FSB publicly presented any proof of a link with Ukraine.

On Saturday morning, 107 people remained in hospital after the attack, including three children, one of whom is described as being in critical condition. After a drive to receive blood donations in Moscow, deputy prime minister Tatyana Golikova said “there is enough medicine, blood and dressing materials”.

Putin has declared Sunday 24 March a day of national mourning. People have been laying flowers and toys as a tribute to the victims at the site of the attack, as well as outside Russian embassies all around the world.

Images from inside the venue show that the auditorium has been completely gutted by fire and the roof has collapsed. Russian authorities say people died both from gunshot wounds and the effects of the fire.

The terrorist attack has been widely condemned around the world. Notwithstanding tensions caused by Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Britain’s foreign secretary David Cameron , European commission president Ursula von der Leyen and French president Emmanuel Macron have been among those condemning the attack and offering condolences. Putin spoke to the leaders of Belarus and Uzbekistan by phone. Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan also offered his support, saying terrorism is “the common enemy of humanity”.

Islamic State solely responsible for Moscow attack, no Ukraine involvement - White House

The Islamic State bears sole responsibility for the deadly attack near Moscow on Friday and there was no Ukrainian involvement, the US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said on Saturday, Reuters reports.

The US government early this month shared information with Russia about a planned attack in Moscow and issued a public advisory to Americans in Russia on 7 March, Watson said in a statement:

ISIS bears sole responsibility for this attack. There was no Ukrainian involvement whatsoever.

Very late on Friday, Watson posted on X/Twitter about US warnings relayed to Russia.

Earlier this month, the U.S. Government had information about a planned terrorist attack in Moscow – potentially targeting large gatherings, to include concerts – which prompted the State Department to issue a public advisory to Americans in Russia. — Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) March 23, 2024

The U.S. Government also shared this information with Russian authorities in accordance with its longstanding ‘duty to warn’ policy. — Adrienne Watson (@NSC_Spox) March 23, 2024

Here’s more on the relationship between the Islamic State and Russia and between Tajikistan and the branch of the religious terrorism group based chiefly but not wholly in the Tajik neighbour of Afghanistan.

We should not forget that in the last several months #Tajiks affiliated with #ISIS #Khorasan tried to do several attacks in #Germany (but failed- everyone arrested), did a small in #Turkey before doing a major one in #Moscow … — Vera Mironova (@vera_mironov) March 23, 2024

More, including from Paweł Wójcik, an independent analyst who’s quoted in a Guardian piece written by Russian affairs reporter Pjotr Sauer .

Pawel has been tracking the battle between ISIS and Russia in Africa for years, well worth a follow for more insight right now https://t.co/Gy4DTj39xr — Danny Gold (@DGisSERIOUS) March 23, 2024

Wójcik, a specialist in Islamic State messaging and propaganda, said IS messaging after the Moscow attack was similar to that of previous attacks that the group claimed in Tehran and Kabul.

“The messaging we saw from IS following the attack was standard,” Wójcik told the Guardian. Read Sauer’s full piece here .

“Deadly Moscow Attack Shatters Putin’s Security Promise to Russians” is the headline of a New York Times analysis piece , with the line below saying: “The tragedy outside Moscow is a blow to a leader riding an aura of confidence only days after a stage-managed election victory.”

The report says, in extract: “Less than a week ago, President Vladimir V Putin of Russia claimed a fifth term with his highest-ever share of the vote, using a stage-managed election to show the nation and the world that he was firmly in control.

“Just days later came a searing counterpoint: His vaunted security apparatus failed to prevent Russia’s deadliest terrorist attack in 20 years.

“The assault on Friday, which killed at least 133 people at a concert hall in suburban Moscow, was a blow to Mr Putin’s aura as a leader for whom national security is paramount. That is especially true after two years of a war in Ukraine that he describes as key to Russia’s survival – and which he cast as his top priority after the election last Sunday.

The election demonstrated a seemingly confident victory. And suddenly, against the backdrop of a confident victory, there’s this demonstrative humiliation,” Aleksandr Kynev , a Russian political scientist, told the New York Times in a phone interview from Moscow.

Mr Putin seemed blindsided by the assault. It took him more than 19 hours to address the nation about the attack, the deadliest in Russia since the 2004 school siege in Beslan, in the country’s south, which claimed 334 lives. When he did, the Russian leader said nothing about the mounting evidence that a branch of the Islamic State committed the attack.

“Instead, Mr Putin hinted that Ukraine was behind the tragedy.”

You can read the whole report here .

Russian lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein said the attackers suspected of shooting up and burning the concert hall near Moscow had fled in a Renault vehicle that was spotted by police in Bryansk region, about 340 km (210 miles) southwest of Moscow on Friday night. He said a car chase ensued after they disobeyed orders to stop, Reuters reports.

Khinshtein said a pistol, a magazine for an assault rifle, and passports from Tajikistan were found in the car. Tajikistan is a mainly Muslim Central Asian state that used to be part of the Soviet Union.

Here is some interesting extrapolation.

Worth reading https://t.co/WeHl6qy6c0 — Pjotr Sauer (@PjotrSauer) March 23, 2024

Hundreds of Russian firefighters are still dealing with the burnt-out shell of the concert hall in Krasnogorsk on the outskirts of Moscow, while security forces across the country remain on high alert.

It’s coming up to midnight in Moscow on Saturday and many people are still reported missing from the assumed terrorist attack that took place on Friday night when thousands were packed into the Crocus City Hall for a pop concert.

Relatives of people who had been attending the concert are still waiting desperately for news, following the Russian authorities reporting that 133 people had been killed and at least 145 wounded or injured and rushed to numerous hospitals.

Russian president Vladimir Putin said 11 suspects had been apprehended and of those four were the chief perpetrators who breached the concert hall and shot people, then lit the building on fire. Interrogations are continuing, the authorities say.

Just a few more details from Kyiv now.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Saturday that Russian president Vladimir Putin was seeking ways to divert blame for a massacre at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday, Reuters reports.

He said it was “absolutely predictable” that Putin had remained silent for 24 hours before tying the shooting rampage to Ukraine.

He added that the hundreds of thousands of what he called “terrorists” that Putin had sent to fight and be killed in the war in Ukraine would “definitely be enough” to have stopped terrorist attacks at home.

There’s a bit more from AFP. Zelensky announced, after Putin said the suspects had been fleeing towards Ukraine:

What happened yesterday in Moscow is obvious: Putin and the other scum are just trying to blame it on someone else … They always have the same methods.

He continued:

That low-life Putin, instead of dealing with his Russian citizens, addressing them, was silent for a day, thinking about how to bring it to Ukraine. Everything is absolutely predictable.

Russian TV airs footage of terrorist attack suspects

Russian television on Saturday aired footage of the detention and questioning of four men suspected of carrying out the deadly attack on a Moscow concert hall, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.

Russia’s Channel One television showed footage of four suspects and their damaged white Renault car.

It said they had been captured by special forces in the village of Khatsun in the western Bryansk region, which is close to borders with Ukraine and Belarus.

In footage shot at night and in daylight, the detained men speak Russian with an accent.

The Islamic State (IS) group has claimed responsibility for Friday night’s attack, when a group of gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall concert venue near Moscow and set it ablaze.

They killed at least 133 people.

The decimated remains of the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, on the outskirts of Moscow, are still smouldering.

It’s just gone 10pm in the Russian capital and crews are still working at the fire-gutted remains of the concert hall.

Russian authorities say they have 11 people in custody, including the four main gunmen who shot people in the hall.

The Islamic State, the religious terrorist group that claims responsibility for the attack, claimed the gunmen got away, however.

The exact details of what happened have yet to be independently verified or officially established.

None of the claims by ISKP , an offshoot of the Islamic State in central Asia, based mainly in Afghanistan, have been publicly acknowledged by Russian authorities. ISKP stands for Islamic State Khorasan Province.

Interim summary

Hello, again, global blog readers. It’s just gone 9pm in Moscow. We’ll continue to bring you all the developments in news from the apparent terrorist attack that occurred on the outskirts of the Russian capital on Friday night.

Neither the Russian president, Vladimir Putin , nor any of his government representatives have responded to claims by the Islamic State religious terrorist group that they were responsible for the attack on a pop concert in the Moscow suburbs on Friday night.

The Islamic State (IS) jihadist group said on Saturday that four of its militants carried out an attack on a concert hall in a Moscow suburb that Russian authorities said has killed at least 133 people, and that they used firebombs among its weapons

The four suspected gunmen detained after a deadly attack on a concert hall near Moscow are all foreign citizens, Russia’s interior ministry said.

US intelligence gathered information just this month that ISPK, a branch of the Islamic State group based in Afghanistan, was eyeing Russia for a terrorist attack, the New York Times has reported .

Police and Russian special forces still surround the concert hall on Saturday. Here are some views from passers-by, blood donors and emergency workers, in reporting via the AFP agency. Most only wanted to give the wire service their first name. Maxim, a 37-year-old who works for the ruling United Russia political party, said:

Yesterday was a great tragedy for all of us. We cannot remain indifferent.

Maxim said that he knew people who had been inside the hall and “went through hell”, but that all were still alive.

On advertising hoardings and at bus stops across Moscow, posters were put up showing a candle and the slogan: “22/03/24 - We mourn.”

With steady rain falling, about 150 people waited outside one blood donor centre in north-west Moscow earlier on Saturday following an appeal by authorities. Alexandra, a 35-year-old air logistics specialist, said:

I came to help. When you can see what happened from your balcony, you understand what the reality is.

Alexandra added that all citizens had a “duty” to give aid, and that she lived near the Crocus City Hall, which had been almost completely burned down in the attack.

Vladislav, an 18-year-old student also in the blood donation queue, said:

When you see the situation you don’t want to remain isolated, you want to help.

Russians in shock and mourning.

It’s almost 9pm in Moscow now and night has fallen.

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