20 dead CRIMEA college cafe bomb/shooting, multiple killers?

[TonyGosling]

Terrorist gunman storms Crimean college and detonates 'home-made bomb' in cafeteria, killing at least 18

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/17/terror-attack-crimea-colle ge-kills-10-home-made-bomb-detonated/

17 OCTOBER 2018 • 12:24PM

At least 18 people died and scores more were injured at a Crimea college on Wednesday after a student allegedly detonated an explosive before opening fire with a hunting rifle.

The attack took place at a polytechnic school in the Crimean town of Kerch, a strategic city from where a new bridge connects the contested peninsula with mainland Russia.

The Kremlin-appointed head of Crimea, Sergey Aksyonov, said the suspect was an 18-year-old student at the college.

He was later identified in the Russian press as Vladislav Roslyakov, a student who had reportedly obtained a hunting license - allowing him to purchase hunting rifles and shotguns - early last month.

A photo of Roslyakov weilding a rifle in a campus stairwell was widely circulated on social social media after the attack.

Reports suggest that, beside detonating an explosive, Roslyakov opened fire on fellow students and teachers. According to Mr Aksyonov, the shooter killed himself during the attack.

Videos from the scene circulated on Russian social media show terror and confusion on the campus. One video shared on a popular Telegram channel, Mash, featured a recording of a woman telling her friend about the explosion and possible shooters.

Law enforcement officers arrive at the scene of the bombing CREDIT: TASS
“The college was blown up,” the unidentified woman began in her video, “We ran and kids just laid there. My friend was killed right before my eyes. I saw her fall and she didn’t move any more. I saw how the boys just fell.”

Other unconfirmed reports on Russian social networks and in the local media feature similar accounts of possible shooters on the campus of the polytechnic college - an institute that specialises in vocational training for teenagers.

School shootings are relatively rare in Russia, where access to firearms is tightly restricted. But attacks are not unheard of using other types of weapons.

In January, 15 students were injured when two teenagers attacked their peers at a school in Perm as part of a Columbine inspired attack.

Gunmen stormed the college in the Crimean peninsula's city of Kerch before setting off the explosive device CREDIT: YEKATERINA KEIZO/TASS / GETTY IMAGES
Russia’s investigative committee reported that it had opened a criminal case under articles pertaining to terrorism. The incident was being treated as mass murder. Roslyakov’s age was initially reported as 22, but he is now reported to be an 18-year-old fourth year student at the school.

President Vladimir Putin held a brief press conference Wednesday afternoon to call for a moment of silence for the victims and said investigators are now working to understand Roslyakov’s motive.

An unidentified student told the RBC news agency that the shooter “very much hated the school because of its evil teachers”.

Roslyakov had hinted he planned to “take revenge on them,” the source, who claimed to be the shooter’s friend, was quoted as saying.

Crimea, formally recognised by the international community as part of Ukraine, has been under Russian control since 2014 following Moscow’s annexation of the Black Sea Peninsula. Kerch is located on the eastern tip of Crimea, where a bridge to the Russian mainland recently opened.

A video published by local news outlet Kerch.com.ru showed the head of the school describing the events to someone on the phone as another Beslan - referring to a horrific 2004 terrorist siege on a school in North Ossetia that resulted in the death of over 300 people, many of them children.

“They ran across the second floor with machine guns, well I don’t know what they had, opening rooms and killing everyone that they could find, everyone they came across,” the woman, identified as Olga Grebennikova, said in the video.

[TonyGosling]

Reports of multiple shooters in this RT article has been edited out by Moscow -
Crimea college shooting investigated as murder, not terror attack ...
https://www.rt.com/news/441511-crimea-college-investigated-murder/
3 days ago - Kerch attack suspect identified as college student, killed himself .... First witnesses describe multiple shooters, then it becomes lone gunman ...
https://www.rt.com/news/441506-kerch-terrorist-blast-student-dead/


BREAKING: CRIMEA TERRORISM COVER-UP? MULTIPLE SKI-MASKED SHOOTERS, CONTRADICTIONS IN RUSSIAN MEDIA – TERROR SUSPECT IDENTIFIED AS VLADISLAV ROSLYAKOV
By FRN Editorial Board Last updated Oct 18, 2018
https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/10/breaking-crimea-terrorism-cover-up-m ultiple-ski-masked-shooters-contradictions-in-russian-media-terror-sus pects-identified-as-vladislav-roslyakov/

Published on: Oct 17, 2018 @ 16:43

UPDATE Oct 17th, 2018 @ 18:00 GMT+ 2 – THE YOUNG MAN FEATURED IN THE PHOTO BELOW APPARENTLY EITHER NOT THE SUSPECT, OR THE SUSPECT CLAIMS TO BE ALIVE. HE IS SAYING THAT HE IS NOT THE SUSPECT, AND HAS BEEN MISIDENTIFIED – HE IS CONCERNED FOR HIS WELL BEING, ACCORDING TO HIS SOCIAL MEDIA.

Russian media and officialdom are presently engaged in what appears to be a ‘cover-up’ of the events today at Kerch College in Crimea. Fortunately, the live reportage on Russian RT at the time of publication, still reflects most of the inconsistencies which FRN previously reported on, which points to multiple professional gunmen, not speaking Russian, wearing ski masks.

It is premature to speculate beyond the basic outline of what motivations Russia may have to cover this up, that this is an act of terrorism carried about by a Gulf Monarchy or Ukraine, or their allies, for example, meant as a provocation – for example – with regard to the conflict in Ukraine. It is too early to make any definitive claims, but given the eyewitness testimony we covered in our last piece, and what we reproduce below, it is clear that those present are aware that there were many gunmen involved.

So there is a deliberate or accidental Russian media ‘confusion’ at play right now. That is, unless what we are seeing right now is simply a matter of confused reportage and some default sense that this is the work of a single 22 year old individual.

What Russian authorities are calling the ‘culprit’ of the terrorist attack in Kerch, found dead, has been positively identified as Vladislav Roslyakov. Authorities already have laid out a biographical sketch of his psychological profile – into anarchism, radical politics, and ‘Novorossiya’. They also claim he was into punk music, and was into the online subculture surrounding the Columbine shootings in the U.S more than two decades ago.


Vladislav Roslyakov
What is clear is that Russian media and authorities are presenting what is essentially a lone-gunman theory, and painting his motivations as anti-social, misanthropic, and individual.

Russian media is reporting this in a strange way – officials now seem to be claiming that the organizer of the terrorist attack in the Kerch Polytechnic College was Vladislav Roslyakov, a 22-year-old college student, a resident of Kerch. The official version is that he shot himself, according to the Head and Prime Minister of the Republic of Crimea, Sergey Aksenov.



What is important to remember, is that Russian authorities first attempted to claim that this was a ‘gas line explosion’, then President Putin definitively declared it a crime, and a murder investigation began, followed by this being transferred to terrorism.

Then, it became clear from witnesses and as the ‘fog of war’ of the event lifted, that there was not just an explosion, but also tremendous gun fire.

But the timeline of the incidents on Russian RT tells a different story than what we are seeing on other outlets and in international media. An analysis of what really happened will be required to fully understand the events.

We have provided a link of the original, above along with a translation for FRN readers below, so there is no doubt that employees of the school and similar witnesses, unanimously report numerous gunmen wearing black ski-masks, of unknown nationalities – not speaking Russian, accounts which vary greatly from the image released which is ostensibly of Roslyakov walking down stairs with a gun.

<< 2:00 pm – A law enforcement source quoted RT testimony from one of the teachers at the Kerch College:
“All the windows are taken out. Firefighters called me, saying: “You have an explosion in the yard there.” I’m 19-20 kilometers back. I call my – to the reception, first deputy, to the general department – they were all already dead, as I understand it. That is, here is the FSB, all services, they drive me away from there, carry out corpses, a lot of wounded, fast – I did not count. When the explosive package was blown up, everything went out of here. They started running around with weapons, I don’t know how, to open the doors and shoot everyone on the second floor. Those who managed – several exits – ran away, and who got into their way or got on the spot … The explosion on the first floor under the director’s office was such that all the folders we got got, everyone ran, but those who got caught were shot like that. I don’t know how many wounded people were taken away – some from bullets, some from an explosion all died. ” >>

<< 14:03 – “Why did they choose us, scoundrels? We have a thousand full-time students, serious access control. Explosion, apparently. They did not take us hostage, we have a lot of exits. As the surviving employees told me, they closed the doors of the cabinets, they pulled from the other side, jumped out of the windows, ” the teacher’s testimony in law enforcement agencies was quoted as saying. >>

<< 14:16 – Kerch college Kerch Natalia Panikorovskaya said RT, that the criminals could not go through the main entrance.

“I do not know how they penetrated. There were children, there was a stream, I gave the call, as usual, let the children through. Just passed the flow of children – there was an explosion. I thought it was the TV. Then the second explosion. And then people came down, saying that they heard the shooting on the second floor, ”she said.

According to her, the attackers could climb over the fence “on the back side.”

“There are such gates there, there are no cameras, you can easily climb over,” said the doorman.

<<14:10 pm – About what was happening in college, RT was told by one of the students: