Five Finger Death Punch has cancelled a concert in Milan following reports that the city was potentially the target of another ISIS terrorist attack. The cancellation occurred after reports from a subgroup called "Anonymous" claimed to have unearthed multiple ISIS attacks slated for the day of the concert (Nov. 22). FFDP's concert in Milan was one of the attacks listed.
As reported by the International Business Times, the hacktivist group apparently discovered plans for attacks in Paris, the U.S., Indonesia, Italy and Lebanon. The subgroup OpParisIntel published both a statement and a list about the impending attacks. The planned attacks included more venues in Paris, a WWE event in Atlanta, the FFDP show, Universal Pastoral Day in Lebanon, worldwide Catholic celebrations of Feast of Christ the King and the One Day One for Al-Jihad in Indonesia.
The FBI is reportedly taking the WWE threat listed in the statement very seriously and are set to release a statement on it.
The band posted to their Facebook to cancel the show, "As some of you may be aware, there were many rumors today that the Milan show on Sunday, November 22nd will be targeted in the next wave of terror attacks like we saw in Paris last week."
FFDP further said, "We did our best in a very short amount of time to work with the local promoter and authorities to ensure that security would be adequate. Unfortunately, we did not receive confirmation in time to satisfy our requirements and to ensure that our fans would be safe at the event."
As some of you may be aware, there were many rumors today that the Milan show on Sunday, November 22nd will be targeted...
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Nine days ago (Nov. 13) members of ISIS opened fire on the crowd at an Eagles of Death Metal concert at Le Bataclan in Paris. While 89 concert-goers were killed, the tragedy also hit close to home within the music industry as the band's merchandise manager Nick Alexander, three record label associates, Thomas Ayad, Marie Mosser and Manu Perez, as well as French music journalist Guillaume B. Decherf were all killed in the attacks.
