Savelyev's report has become a lightning rod, drawing prominent supporters and detractors alike. The lone survivor among the hostage takers was sentenced to prison earlier this year. Officials have claimed that 32 hostage takers were involved, and that all but one were killed on September 3. He also raises the possibility that as many as 60-70 attackers were involved in the three-day siege. Savelyev's report also claims that police in Chechnya learned of the attacks three hours ahead of time but failed to alert law-enforcement officials in North Ossetia. The more important question is who ordered it." However, it remains unclear who exactly fired the shots, but this question is less important. The first shot was fired at the gymnasium's attic above the hostages, and the second shot was fired under a gymnasium window. Accordingly, it is also known where the shots were fired at. Those buildings are adjacent to the school.
"The first shot was fired from a five-story building at 37 Shkolny Pereulok, the second shot was fired from 41 Shkolny Pereulok. "It is known where the shots were fired from," Litvinovich said. Thus, Savelyev believes, the military may have initiated the bloody conclusion to the siege. Savelyev concluded that the authorities decided to storm the school building, but wanted to create the impression they were acting in response to actions taken by the hostage takers. He said that in conducting his investigation he found that surviving hostages were talking about explosions in parts of the school other than those referred to by officials. However, he said the scientific evidence simply did not support that scenario. Savelyev told Russia's Ekho Moskvy radio station that his investigation was initially based on the premise that the first two explosions resulted from the hostage takers' homemade explosives.
"In his report, Yury Petrovich Savelyev found out that the first shots against the gymnasium were made from a certain weapon - the first shot was made from an RPO-A thermobaric flame-thrower, or a similar weapon, and the second shot was made from an RShG-1 rocket-propelled grenade." "The main conclusion of Savelyev's report concerns the first explosions in the gymnasium on September 3, which set off of the storming of the school," Litvinovich said. "Pravda-Beslana" Editor in Chief Marina Litvinovich explained the main findings in an interview with RFE/RL's Russian Service. There was a third party trying to provoke the spontaneous ignition of the material inside the school's gym." - Rodina member Dmitry Rogozin, who was in Beslan during the siege. "I regard his report as a report written by a top-class expert. Excerpts of Savelyev's 700-page report were published yesterday in "Novaya gazeta" and on the website "Pravda-Beslana" (). The Federation Council's official investigative commission, headed by deputy speaker Aleksandr Torshin, is expected to release its final report in September.īut the independent investigation of explosives expert Yury Savelyev, a member of Motherland (Rodina), veers sharply from the official explanation. The official line has long been that militants set off the initial explosion and that grenades fired by Russian troops could not have started the blaze. A standoff ensued until September 3, when Russian personnel stormed the school after explosions were heard and a blaze broke out in the gymnasium that held most of the hostages. More than 1,000 hostages were taken at the Beslan school in the early hours of September 1, 2004, by guerrillas demanding an end to the war in nearby Chechnya. But the Prosecutor-General's Office flatly refuses to listen to the testimony of eyewitnesses who saw it." "We have known for a long time that security services were to blame for killing many of the hostages.
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