According to Daesh (ISIS)’s media arm Amaq, the two men who held several people hostage in a church in Normandy, France today were Daesh militants. The attackers murdered a priest by slitting his throat and held two nuns and others in the Saint-Etienne-du Rouvray church before being killed by police.

But in an image of the press release tweeted by Al Aan TV reporter Jenan Moussa, the date reads July 25, not July 26 when the attack occurred.

Was this a type-o by Daesh? Or did they know the attack was coming? Seeing as they claimed the perpetrators as their own, one would think they knew something of the attack beforehand.



Moussa later tweeted an image showing that Daesh had corrected the date.

Why the press release originally read July 25 remains a mystery at present.

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