Bad times for the Sochi Games. After the delays caused by bad weather, then the suspicions of corruption at the highest levels of the State, the next Olympic fortnight is now the subject of a terrorist threat. And not the least. The leader of the Islamists of the Russian Caucasus, Dokou Oumarov, enemy number one of the Kremlin, called for attacks against the Winter Games, in a video broadcast on Wednesday July 3. The Russian authorities “want to hold the Olympic Games on the bones of many Muslims buried on our lands, along the Black Sea. We must prevent this by all means,” says Dokou Oumarov in this video published on the site kavkazcenter.com.
In this message, filmed in a forest, Dokou Oumarov calls on Islamist rebels “all over Russia, to do their utmost to prevent the holding of these satanic dances on our lands and on the bones of our ancestors. » This is the first time that the Islamist leader of the Caucasus has threatened to attack the Sochi Winter Olympics in February 2014.
At the head of the Caucasus Emirate, an underground movement born from Chechnya's wars of independence, Dokou Oumarov has claimed responsibility for numerous deadly attacks in recent years in Russia, including an attack at Moscow airport- Domodedovo (37 dead) and attacks in 2010 in the Moscow metro (40 dead).
Sochi, located between the mountains and the Black Sea, neighbors the Russian Caucasus, an unstable region in southern Russia where attacks by Islamist rebels are almost daily.
At the end of May 2013, a meeting between American delegates and Russian senators resulted in the project of cooperation between the two countries on anti-terrorism security at the Sochi Games. An agreement between the two countries which could materialize in the perspective, taken very seriously in the Kremlin, of an attack during the Olympics.
