2024-04-09 09:46:24
The Spanish and English press are worried about threats of attacks made by the Islamic State on the stadiums hosting the quarter-final first legs of the Champions League, this Tuesday and Wednesday.
Concern has emerged in recent hours in several European media after threats of attacks on the sidelines of the quarter-final first leg of the Champions League played this Tuesday and Wednesday. The Spanish and English media report a message broadcast on Al Azaim Foundation, a media responsible for relaying ISIS communications. This is a poster illustrating the four stadiums hosting the matches over the next two days: the Emirates Stadium for Arsenal-Bayern, Santiago-Bernabeu for Real Madrid-Manchester City, this Tuesday (9 p.m.), the Parc des Princes for PSG-Barcelona and the Wanda Metropolitano for Atlético-Dortmund, Wednesday (9 p.m.).
“Kill them all”
The poster shows a fighter with a heavy weapon in his hand, behind the inscription: “Kill them all”. These threats come after the recent scathing attack claimed by the organization, on March 22 in a large concert hall in Moscow, the Crocus City Hall, which left 143 dead. At the end of March, the Sarh al-Khilafah media, affiliated with ISIS, also announced its intention to attack supporters on the sidelines of the Klassiker between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund (0-2).
The Islamic State poster which threatens to attack the stadiums of the quarter-final first legs of the Champions League (April 2024) – Capture
According to As, the Spanish authorities activated security procedures for the two meetings organized in the city on Tuesday (Real-Manchester City) and Wednesday (Atlético-Dortmund) with more than 3,000 security agents. A reinforced system due to the expected presence of more than 8,000 supporters from Manchester and Borussia.
This Tuesday, the Spanish Interior Ministry announced that it had put in place all “alert systems”. Sources indicated that a large security operation has been designed for the matches played in the Spanish capital “In terms of preventing the terrorist threat, the state security forces and agencies have activated all their alert systems and protection, as well as all their response mechanisms, ready and willing”, confided the Interior.
Sources in the fight against terrorism told the Spanish press agency EFE that they had detected messages of radical threat against upcoming sporting events, in their monitoring of social networks, including this message calling for them to stop. take part in the most prestigious European competitions. These same sources assured that the anti-terrorism alert level, located in Spain at level 4 out of 5, was “sufficiently reinforced”.
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