Could ISIS launch a terrorist attack during the Champions League quarter-finals?

Islamic State have released a call to arms for attacks on the four host stadiums of the Champions League quarter-finals.

On Monday 8 April, the terrorist group Islamic State launched a threat against the four stadiums that will host the first leg of the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

The Al Azaim Foundation, a media outlet that is responsible for spreading messages from the Islamic State (Daesh, ISIS), published the image of a poster threatening the Parc des Princes, the Santiago Bernabéu, the Metropolitano and the Emirates Stadium, with the message ‘Kill them all’.

The latest attack by the Islamic State, which took place on 22 March at the Crocus City Hall, a large concert hall in Moscow, is still fresh.Several armed men, dressed in camouflage uniforms, burst in and fired automatic weapons at the audience. The criminal action resulted in 143 dead and around 200 wounded.

Monday’s threat comes after the ISIS-affiliated media outlet Sarh al-Khilafah published an image on 30 March calling for an attack on the people who were at the Allianz Arena in Munich to watch the match between Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund.

The Government of Madrid have activated security procedures for the Champions League double-header this week in the Spanish capital. Both matches, Real Madrid-Manchester City and Atlético-Borussia Dortmund, have been declared high risk by the Anti-Violence Commission and will have more than 3,000 members of security forces spread out between them. Nearly 8,000 Manchester City and Borussia Dortmund fans are expected to arrive.

In a word, nothing. The two names are applicable for the same group of people, as are ISIL and Daesh.

When the group was established in 2006, it called itself the Islamic State of