Published on: 04/19/2022 – 14:24 In an audio statement broadcast on Sunday, the jihadist organization Islamic State promised to “avenge” its previous leader and called on its supporters to take advantage of the war in Ukraine to resume attacks in Europe. According to our journalist Wassim Nasr, “this sounds more like a reproach than a call to commit an attack”. The jihadist organization Islamic State (IS) promised, on Sunday April 17, to “avenge” its previous leader, who died in February, and called on its supporters to take advantage of the war in Ukraine to resume their attacks in Europe. On February 3, US President Joe Biden announced the death of former IS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hachimi al-Qurachi, who blew himself up during a US special forces operation in northwest Syria, a region under the control of jihadists. His death, as well as that of the former spokesman of the group, had been confirmed by the EI on March 10. relying on God, a blessed campaign to avenge us” for the death of the leader of the IS group, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, the spokesman, said in an audio statement broadcast on Telegram on Sunday attributed to them. IS also called on his supporters to resume their attacks in Europe by seizing the “opportunity” of the “comba t between crusaders”, in allusion to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. However, should this message be understood as a direct threat? “You always have to take the threat seriously, but you have to contextualize it,” replies Wassim Nasr, journalist at France 24, specialist in jihadist groups. “It sounds more like a reproach than a call to commit an attack,” he continues. , recalling that the last jihadist attack to hit Europe dates back to November 2020 in Vienna. Also, he analyzes, “we are far from the activation of cells or the sending of teams as for that of November 13”. With AFP