’ISIS’ Declares Rallies of France’s FN as ’Prime Targets’

Local Editor

For the first time, "ISIS" targeted France's right-wing National Front [FN] party and its supporters in a statement on the pages of its French-language propaganda magazine.

In the latest issue of "Dar al Islam", the terrorists published a photo of an FN rally with the caption "prime targets."

"The question is no longer whether France will be hit again by attacks like those of November... The only relevant question is the next target and the date," the text read, as cited by Le Figaro.

In response, the secretary general of the Front challenged PM Manual Valls on Twitter, asking him if he was "satisfied," referring to the PM's harsh rhetoric condemning the right-wing party. Speaking on France Inter in December, Valls described FN as "racist and anti-Semitic," while claiming that if they won power in regional polls, it could lead to "civil war" in France.

Meanwhile, the party's vice president, Florian Philippot, tweeted that in targeting the FN, the terrorists were attacking the whole country.

In an interview to RFI on Monday Louis Aliot, another FN vice president, said that he asked the Interior Ministry to take the "threat seriously" and "do everything to prevent the worst."

The head of the FN party, Marine Le Pen, has been gaining popularity in wake of the deadly terror attacks in Paris in November of 2015 through anti-immigrant rhetoric and criticism of the EU's handling of the current refugee crisis.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team