A man detained on Saturday on suspicion of the deadly terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall near Moscow said that he had shot people at the concert venue for money.
"I shot people at Crocus ... for money," the detainee said in a video of the interrogation published on Telegram by Margarita Simonyan, the editor-in-chief of Rossiya Segodnya media group, Sputnik's parent company.
At first, the man stated he had been promised 500,000 rubles ($5,400), but only half of the promised amount had been transferred to his card. However, later, the suspect said he had been promised about 1 million rubles.
He said that he lost the card while fleeing through the woods from law enforcement officers.
The suspect explained that a month ago, he had been contacted via Telegram by an unnamed person and then provided with weapons. He also said he had decided to carry out the terrorist attack after a conversation with the "preacher's assistant." The suspect admitted that his curators had instructed him to kill all the people in the concert hall.
In the video, the detainee also confirmed the information that he had arrived in Russia from Turkey on March 4.
"There [in Turkey] ... the documents expired, and I crossed the border here," the detainee added.
He also provided his first name, last name, and year of birth: Shamsuddin Fariddun, born in 1998.
The terrorist attack at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, near Moscow, happened on Friday night before a concert, when armed men began firing at the crowd at close range, throwing incendiary bombs in the process.
A Sputnik correspondent who witnessed the attack said that at least three men dressed in camouflage broke into the concert hall, shooting people point-blank and throwing incendiary bombs.
On Saturday, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had detained 11 people in connection with the attack, including four who were directly responsible. All four were detained in the Russian region of Bryansk, which borders Ukraine, a few hours apart, the FSB added.