Kremlin claimed attack had links to Ukraine but never provided evidenceThe Crocus concert hall in a suburb of Moscow burns after a shooting attack in which 150 people died, on March 22, 2024. (Photo: AFP)MOSCOW - A Russian court on Thursday sentenced 15 men — including four gunmen — to life in prison over the Crocus concert hall attack which left 150 people dead, the deadliest onslaught in Russia in more than two decades. The gunmen entered the concert hall shortly before a concert by the Soviet-era rock band Picnic. “For us all it’s like yesterday,” Ivan Pomorin, who was filming the Crocus Hall concert at the time, told AFP in the court. Hours after the attack, Russia brought them to court with signs of torture — including one barely conscious in a wheelchair.

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