Nova Festival Survivor (Name Unknown)

 

The interview was conducted October 12 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO1ji7le_x0&list=PLeTp2qYNR7W5bpEVdY-y_3OURPPUmVF01&index=3


I want to make it clear. First thing
first,
it was a peace festival
and we, and we did nothing to provoke them.
We just was dancing and having fun.
I can't, I can't forget the moment that when I got in the festival
and
I don't know any about anyone there. It was something like 30 or thou 4000 people
and just uh got into the entrance and uh just a guy that I don't even know
came to me and start to hug me and bless me for coming for the festival.
We had a uh a small camp next to us of a German people from German. Just a tourist
who came all over the way from Berlin or wherever they came.
And uh we make drinks together. We had laugh. It just so much happiness.


How did you get wounded
What happened to you? Tell me how you got wounded.
I
forgot to
write a big story.
And the first moment that we realized that there is missiles,
I was really come in first.
Uh because it's not the first time that I seen uh missiles. I was fighting in a TK
town
and I was doing, uh I've been serving the army.
And then,
then I start to watch the missiles and one of
the producers of the festival just jump on the fence
and screamed that the terrorists are coming in legs
and leg just they come in and landed,
not for missile.
And then the panic began.
It was a big panic.
Everybody was jumping on the fence,
everybody ran to their cars and there was a lot of fire out there.
just
even in the biggest worst scene that we seen in mo in movies.
I can't explain how much, how many bullets and missiles were flying around us.
Not the,
the big missile like RPG and everything. It was RPG all over.
I was fighting in a war. Never seen so many RPGS. Seriously.


How did you get shot
And how did you get shot?
So
how did you get,
get shot is part of the story and we try
to go to another place and they turned us around again
and then we saw a policeman standing next to a shelter and a lot of cars
and the policeman look at us and say there is nowhere. They are,
they are all over the place. Get inside the shelter. It's the only way
we got inside the shutters with something.
I remember 30 or 40 people but my friend says that was 60 or even 50 or 60 people.
Uh We got inside the shutter was something like a
2 m at all, like just 2 m square
and uh,
we got inside and then the shooting started and the policeman tried to calm us down.
It's not the terrorist is the ID F
but the shooting was on us.
I could see the shots.
I couldn't, I couldn't feel on the,
on the stones of the shelter. I could feel the, the bullets
and we scared at him. It's not ID F, it's not ID F
and then you just look at us and say, stay inside,
pull out the gun
and then it was a massive shots all over the place.
We can see in the entrance of the shelter.
A lot of bullets flying inside. But they couldn't be us because they, if
they can turn left
to us because it was entrance and then left to the shelter.
A small something
like
s


Animal slaughter
it sounds to me like you are
directed to take shelter,
but you were like a cornered animal in this shelter because that's where the, we
didn't
shelter. It wasn't, it wasn't the shelter,
it was uh animal slaughter.
It's like they take all the animals to one place and shoot them all.
And then uh the policeman got shot in the runaway
and he killed one of the terrorists but got shot in the runaway.
I found him on. So a
life and God,
the policeman
uh
one second, sorry,
then they, they dropped the first grenade
drop inside.
It was exploding the inter
I'm sorry if it's too much, don't
talk.
No, no, it's ok. I need to tell about this.
Just a second, please.
Thank you.
After the first grenade.
After something like 45 seconds,
it rub the second grenade
and they hit the wall, hit my head
and flow to the back of the row of the people of the people have been in the back row
and explode on them.
And there was something like a lot of smoke inside
and then my friend, girlfriend, uh, start to choke and she wanted to go out
and she started to run away from the shelter. We tried to catch her.
I remember I was in the second row of the people.
I tried to catch her with my hand and I it was slipping
and she tackle, I think she tackled the terrorist
and she shot her dead from the zero, from zero


How she survived
point blank, from point blank point blank.
Yes,
you
from point blank.
And after,
after he shot her dead,
he just got inside. I, I could never forget the, the face of him. He was smiling at us.
It looks like the devil. He just looked at us point point the gun, the car,
a machine gun in, in
front, the girl play a face
and just start to spread everything around.
Uh, all the people. I was in the second role.
All the people in the first row and the second row
shut dead.
I just opened my eyes and open my mouth.
And start to go down the wall because I got, I understood that I got hit
but didn't understand where yet because it was blood all over and screaming.
And from all the adrenaline, I got to eat it in my body.
But I can't really understand what happens.
And I think his gun was broken. That's why he stopped
to sh and there was a third grenade inside the building
but it didn't explode. We found him on the floor. We,
we didn't say that we don't want to touch it so it won't explode.
You know what Saha
I,
I'm just
pleased that you made it out. What a complete and utter
horror.
I wish it was all,
all
in all movie. You can go out somehow
and, and no choice.
I saw the kids that
the body is full of bullets.
A, a girl that all his,
all her body parts on the floor and she was crawling to her boyfriend
and dead boyfriend and start to kiss him until she got, she died by herself. Wow.
I, I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry for you. I'm so happy that you survived
and we wish you
all the best and uh we thank you for this story because as you say,
it's important for people to hear what happened.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank
you.
Thank
you. I just really want to make it clear. Just the last thing.
It wasn't a war. It was a slaughter.
Seriously, it wasn't a war.
It was a big slaughter
that they didn't care about animals or people.
They didn't care if you are a Jew or American, a Christian.
Even, not a Muslim, they killed them, even Muslims, they killed them.
They didn't care about anything.