The Islamic State issued a chilling menace to ‘kill France’ simply days earlier than Egyptair flight MS804 from Paris crashed, with sixty six individuals onboard.
The aircraft, which was carrying one Brit and 15 French passengers, went lacking a number of hours after departing from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport final night time.
It was confirmed to have crashed en-path to Cairo Worldwide this morning, with the Greek Service provider Navy reporting seeing a ‘flame within the sky’ over the ocean.
Solely days earlier than the tragedy, ISIS gave a murderous warning to France in an internet video displaying two younger French boys executing a pair of prisoners.
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Within the horrific footage, one of many gun-wielding kids declares: “I say to France: We’ll kill you, as you killed our brothers.”
He provides: “I used to be requested to do a favour: to turn into a martyr. To go to France to show them and avenge the blood of Muslims.”
When requested if he would ever return to his house nation, the boy reveals that he would solely achieve this ‘to advertise Islam’.
“Islam will someday rule the world, with us or with out us,” he says.
The video, referred to as In The Footsteps of My Father, additionally exhibits clips of Paris landmarks, together with the Eiffel Tower and the River Seine, and an Air France aircraft.
It concludes by displaying the boys capturing the 2 prisoners lifeless.
ISIS declare the lads – who’re blindfolded and sporting orange jumpsuits – are a soldier and spy for the Syrian regime.
They are often seen sitting on the bottom earlier than the boys calmly hearth one shot every on the males.
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The 14-minute lengthy video opens by displaying scenes from Paris earlier than shifting on to clips of younger youngsters – together with the 2 who kill the prisoner – in coaching.
In a single scene, the boys may be seen in a classroom studying maths.
In one other, they seem on a goal vary with the pictures of varied world leaders together with Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Francois Hollande on the targets.
One of many younger French boys fires photographs in the direction of the face of Hollande.
The video finishes by displaying the execution of the 2 prisoners by the younger boys.
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Earlier this week, it emerged that ISIS has declared a state of emergency in its self-declared capital of Raqqa in Syria.
Speaking in a Pentagon briefing over telephone from Baghdad, Iraq , he added that ISIS feels threatened and are reportedly moving troops to prepare for a possible attack.
He said: “We have seen this declaration of emergency in Raqqa, whatever that means.
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“We all know this enemy feels threatened, as they need to. They see the Syrian Democratic Forces together with the Syrian Arab Coalition manoeuvre each to their east and to their west.”
