Moscow’s Crocus City Hall, Russia’s deadliest attack in two decades, will no longer serve as a concert hall once restored, the regional governor told state media on Saturday.
The sumptuous venue on the outskirts of the capital caught fire on March 22 after a mass shooting at a rock concert that killed 145 other people and injured many more.
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A branch of the Islamic State (IS) organization temporarily claimed responsibility for the attack; Russia also accused Ukraine of being involved, accusations that Kiev has strongly denied.
After the attack, authorities debated the possibility of reopening the place.
“There will no longer be a concert hall there,” Andrei Vorobyov, governor of the Moscow region, told the RIA Novosti news agency about the recovery projects. The report released Saturday did not specify what it will be used for in the future.
Opened in 2009, the Crocus Town Hall has attracted many Russians and stars.
Former U. S. President Donald Trump held a “Miss Universe” there in 2013, the same year British comedian-turned-politician Eddie Izzard performed there.
The venue was built by influential Azerbaijani real estate developer Aras Agalarov and is dedicated to Muslim Magomayev, a prominent Soviet-era pop singer who is also from Azerbaijan.
The fatal attack raised questions about Russia’s security apparatus after the United States revealed it had warned Moscow that extremists were making plans to attack the site.
On Sunday, three months after the massacre at the concert hall, a series of attacks on churches, synagogues and a police checkpoint rocked the restive North Caucasus region. The attackers killed at least 20 other people in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.
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