What is Crocus City Hall like, the concert hall in Moscow where the attack took place

The concert hall Croco Town HallIn Flythe capital of Russia, was shaken on Friday by a terrorist attack with automatic weapons that ended in a fire that caused at least 40 deaths. This “multi-event space”, which hosted Miss Universe in the past, belongs to the Agalarov family, the Russian friends of the former US president. Donald Trump and also the re-elected Russian president Valdimir Putin.

Crocus City Hall is a 7,000-seat concert hall in a spectacular complex located in Krasnogorsk, northwest of Moscow. It also has a 700 m2 restaurant, with 300 seats.

And within the same complex there is another concert hall, of American inspiration: the “Vegas City Hall”, with a capacity of 1,500 people. They are connected by the “Vegas Gaming Zone”, 3,000 square meters that refer to the main attraction of Sin City.

The complex, which the owners themselves define as a metropolis, has up to one million visitors a day. In addition to concert halls and restaurants, in 2016 it opened an Oceanarium, a hotel, a parking lot for 21 thousand cars, a supermarket chain and a heliport.

The salon is owned by Azerbaijani businessman, Aras Agalarov. In 2013, in that room, the music producer Rob Goldstone participated in the organization of Miss Universe Competition, then owned by Trump. And the then American businessman visited Moscow.

According to the magazine Forbes, Aras Agalarov began his development as a businessman by marketing premium products in Russia. And subsequently he dedicated himself to the development of luxury shopping centers.

To date, Agalarov owns more than ten large shopping centers, a concert hall, an aquarium and an exhibition complex.

In fact, his company Crocus Group was the general contractor of two stadiums that hosted matches at the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

The same magazine claims that the Agalarovs are the American president’s main partners in Russia. Emin Agalarov, son of Aras, is also a businessman and singer. He acted as an intermediary between Donald Trump’s eldest son and the Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnítskaya in 2017, and has never hidden his close relationship with the president of the United States, his friendship with his children and the businesses he they unite them.

In turn, according to Russian media, the project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow was born after the Miss Universe competition. “Now that I look back, I understand that when we met he already behaved like a president, with a big entourage, who everyone knows, who everyone wants to greet and who always wears a red tie,” Agalarov Jr. said in his interview … with Russian television.

For his part, Emin Agalarov, owner of all the complexes, praised Trump when he became president: “On the one hand he is a person with a lot of experience, who understands business and politics, who has his opinion on everything. And on the other part is a friendly person, with a very close-knit family that supports him despite all the criticism from the press.”