The killers walked calmly through the lobby of the venue “as if they were out for a stroll”, shooting as they went, before storming the auditorium where concertgoers had fled in search of refuge, a lawyer caught up in the Moscow music venue attack recalled on Saturday.
Andrei, 58, had gone to Crocus City Hall with his wife to see a sold-out concert by Picnic, a Soviet-era rock band, on Friday night. He had bought her the tickets as a present for International Women’s Day.
The couple were drinking coffee together shortly before 8pm in a café on the venue’s second floor when they heard shots in the lobby below and saw people begin to flee. “Then I saw a window break,” Andrei said. “And
