Between this and the Moscow theater hostage crisis…and I guess the Bataclan attacks in France…people seem to target theaters in other countries.
But the US seems much more concerned about sporting events being targeted in the US. I don’t hear about security restrictions on theaters.
I guess a sporting event can have a lot more people, and if televised might be higher visibility. But I’d think that any vulnerability would persist across national boundaries.
Terrorists are always going to attack whatever has the most convenient combination of lax security and number of people for them. They don’t go for cultural venues because they loath theater, they go for them because there’s less things that go wrong for them.
The best governments can do is to have more security in places with more people - like sports events.
Outside of the US, soccer fixtures are the biggest sporting events (certainly in Europe & Russia).
Due to a long history of violent football hooliganism, there is already elevated security around these events & international intelligence coordination preceding them.
Additionally, it is usually very difficult to obtain tickets unless you have connections to a club.
These factors would make them trickier targets than lesser sporting events or concerts.
Differences in transport access to sporting stadia & theatres in different countries may also play a role. Terrorists naturally take logistics into account.
And maybe the US just picks up more chatter about sporting events & not much about theatres?
But yeah, broadly either type of target is possible anywhere.
So, are the terrorists one or more of these:
- islamic terrorists from one of the Caucasus “republics”
- disgruntled vets
- separatists
- FSB agents
I’d figure it’s some IS offshoot, although regardless of who actually did it the FSB will likely blame it on the Chechens as is tradition. Especially if they did it themselves
Don’t you know anything, it’s ukrainian gay nazi terrorists funded by the west
ISIS has claimed credit for the attack, then again they’ll take credit for anything if it’s big enough.
Sounds like Elon Musk.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Several gunmen in combat fatigues burst into a big concert hall in Moscow on Friday and fired automatic weapons at the crowd, killing and injuring an unspecified number of people, Russian media said.Russian news reports said that the assailants also used explosives, causing a massive blaze at the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow.
Video posted on social media showed huge plumes of black smoke rising over the building.Russia’s state RIA Novosti news agency reported that at least three people in combat fatigues fired weapons.
The state Tass news agency also reported the shooting.Russian media reports said that riot police units were sent to the area as people were being evacuated
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