Russes solidaires après l'attaque, donnent du sang et se recueillent

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Des dizaines de Russes ont afflué dès l'aube samedi vers des centres de dons du sang à Moscou ou des mémoriaux improvisés, encore sous le "choc" après l'attaque armée dans une salle de concert qui a fait au moins 133 morts.  Sous un ciel gris et malgré la pluie, ils étaient environ 150 à attendre leur tour en pleine rue devant un centre spécialisé dans le nord-ouest de Moscou. - L'info en continu  https://buzzplus.fr/ Infos, news & actualités - L'information internationale en direct.

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00:00 Dozens of Russians were flooded from dawn on Saturday to blood donation centers in Moscow or improvised memorials,

00:06 still in shock after the armed attack in a concert hall that killed at least 133 people.

00:11 Under a gray sky and despite the rain,

00:14 there were about 150 waiting in the middle of the street in front of a specialized center in northwestern Moscow.

00:20 They came in the form of solidarity and the call of the authorities,

00:24 even if they said there was no shortage of blood in the immediate area.

00:28 "I came to help," said Alexandra, a 35-year-old specialist in air logistics,

00:34 who believes it is the duty of every citizen.

00:37 Residing not far from the Krokus City Hall concert hall,

00:41 near the capital's suburbs,

00:42 attacked by armed individuals on Friday evening,

00:46 this woman is said to still be in shock after the attack claimed by the Islamic State Jihadist group.

00:51 And when you can see from her balcony the horrors that are being talked about on television,

00:56 you understand that it is a reality, and for me personally, it is a nightmare, she said.

01:02 Russian authorities announced Saturday the arrest of the four attackers who had opened the fire with automatic weapons

01:09 before setting the building on fire with a flammable liquid.

01:12 "Not willing to help. When you see this situation, you don't want to stay out of it, you want to help,"

01:19 explains Vladislav, an 18-year-old student who is in line to donate blood.

01:24 At noon on Saturday, Russian medical authorities announced they had had enough blood for the hundred injured in the attack.

01:32 "But we continue to receive all the donors.

01:36 We are in solidarity with the wish of the people who come to help to make up the reserves,"

01:40 said a Russian medical-biological federal agency official, Olga Eikley, quoted by the official TASS press agency.

01:48 On many advertising panels and in some bus stops in Moscow,

01:52 posters appeared showing a candle on a black background and the inscription "We are on watch March 22, 2024".

01:59 Russians also came to lay flowers in front of the Krokus City Hall,

02:04 whose roof is blackened and partially destroyed by the flames of the day before, according to a journalist from AFP.

02:10 The police and special forces were still deployed there,

02:13 and hundreds of rescuers were pursuing the work of clearing the debris.

02:18 "Yesterday's day was a great tragedy for all of us.

02:22 We cannot remain indifferent, many of us had friends and parents there yesterday,"

02:27 said Maxim, a 37-year-old party employee.

02:31 "His friends are alive, but they have lived a real hell," he said.

02:36 "The whole country is worried.

02:38 For my part, it was impossible for me to stay at home today, in Bondi-Katrina, 48 years old.

02:45 Fear.

02:47 In Saint Petersburg, the second city in Russia,

02:50 residents laid flowers in several places in the city,

02:53 and a queue formed in front of the main improvised memorial, in front of the Russian National Library.

02:59 The former imperial capital was the victim of a bomb attack in the subway in 2017,

03:05 which killed 14 and injured 53.

03:08 In Ekaterinburg, the big city of Loural,

03:10 an improvised memorial was formed on the central square, near a monument to Lenin.

03:16 Residents brought flowers, toys, candles,

03:20 many stayed silent, some cried,

03:24 a journalist from AFP noted.

03:27 In Donetsk, a city occupied by Russia in the east of Ukraine and a bastion of Moscow's partisans,

03:32 residents laid flowers and stuffed animals in front of a giant red writing "Russia".

03:37 In the capital, the Red Square was closed,

03:40 and tourists from other Russian regions did not hide their fear by walking nearby.

03:45 "We have only three days to go to Moscow and we wanted to see, at least from a distance, the heart of the country",

03:51 explained to AFP Lyubov, 43 years old,

03:54 who came with her family from the region of Pskov, northwest.

03:58 "Even if there is no reason to rejoice",

04:01 she said, saying she was afraid for her life and for her loved ones.

04:05 "All this was so unexpected, a terrible tragedy",

04:09 Olga, 38 years old, from Chelyabinsk, said.

04:13 "I don't feel completely safe, of course", she admitted.

04:17 "And I'm scared, very scared".

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