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Moscow attack: EI-K is “an emanation of the Islamic State” which has already threatened France, explains Driss Aït Youssef, specialist in security issues
Moscow attack: EI-K is “an emanation of the Islamic State” which has already threatened France, explains Driss Aït Youssef, specialist in security issues
(France news)
Guest of 19/20 info Monday March 25, Driss Aït Youssef, specialist in security issues, discusses the nature of the organization which claimed responsibility for the terrorist attack near Moscow on the evening of Friday March 22.
Three days after the terrorist attack which struck Russia, Friday March 22, the French government decided to raise the Vigipirate plan to the “emergency attack” level, its highest level. Driss Aït Youssef, specialist in security issues, sheds light on the situation in 19/20 info, Monday March 25. He explains that a “a body of evidence (…) pushes the government” to use such a level of security.
An organization present in Asia and Iran
Driss Aït Youssef also underlines that the EI-K group, a branch of the Islamic State based in Khorassan, has “already had threats against France“and that several arrests took place.”This terrorist organization is an offshoot of the Islamic State, which was established in northern Afghanistan and was created in 2014-2015“, explains the specialist, specifying that EI-K is present in a territory”larger than Afghanistan“and lies”also in Asia and Iran”.
