An intervention destined to spark discussion, that of Giuseppe Cruciani during Forehand and backhandthe program hosted by Paolo Del Debbio Thursday 28 March. The journalist, voice of The mosquito on Radio 24, he comments on the reconstructions ofMoscow attack last Friday, the terrible attack on Crocus City Hall claimed by ISIS. It all seems to lead to terrorism of sorts Islamistalthough Russia is the same Vladimir Putin they point the finger atUkraineae, secondarily, on the West. “I’m not passionate about the issue of responsibility, because we won’t know” who did it, Cruciani said.
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The journalist claims that “it is useless to agonize over the responsibility for the attack, but I I don’t believe it for a second that they were Islamic”. The reason? “Russia is a very controlled country” and the people arrested, all coming from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia with a strong Muslim imprint, “are objectively the material executors of that attack” But “the fact that they showed up in a theater, in a public place to carry out this attack without anyone in Moscow knowing anything is difficult for me to imagine”, is Cruciani’s suspicion.
“The interesting thing will be to see Moscow’s reaction in the coming weeks,” argues the host The mosquito who reiterates: “It seems like something more than secret servicesI don’t think it is possible today to kill 200-300 people in Moscow, how many there will be in the end, without the Russian secret services or even those of other countries knowing anything.” For Cruciani the true responsibilities will be known “in at least 50 years”, when some documents will appear.
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An intervention that totally differs from what was stated shortly afterwards by Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, president of the Institute of International Affairs. The ambassador states that first of all “there was a glaring failure on the part of the Russian security services” who were not “able to prevent this attack” after the American intelligence services “had warned the Russians that there was this risk.” Then there’s “the clumsy attempt of the Russian authorities” to attribute responsibility for the attack to Kiev or to the West, for two reasons. “To divert the attention of Russian public opinion from this sensational manifestation of vulnerability of internal security”, argues Nelli Feroci, and “to constitute the conditions for a relaunch of amilitary offensive on the Ukrainian front”.
