After more than 30 hours, Isis claimed responsibility the Istanbul nightclub bombing which resulted in the deaths of 39 people on New Year's Eve. The attacker who fired at the Reina club is "a heroic soldier of the caliphate - reads the claim released through Amaq, the caliphate news agency - he hit the most famous nightclub where the Christians were celebrating their apostate party" . And he attacked Turkey, "servant of the Crusaders".
The well-known restaurant is located in the Besiktas district, on the shore of the Bosphorus on the European side. After the massacre, the bomber fled and a manhunt is underway throughout Turkey. According to Turkish media, the perpetrator of the massacre is linked to the same cell that hit Ataturk airport in June, causing 47 deaths. Based on the testimonies collected, it now seems certain that the bomber spoke Arabic.
There was also a group of young Italians in the nightclub, according to reports from the local Modena TV Trc-Telemodena. For TV, the Italian company, which was celebrating the New Year, managed to escape the massacre by throwing itself on the ground when the first shots in the room triggered panic. Some of them would have reported only minor grazes in the crowd. It would be three Modena and other friends from Brescia and Palermo, in Turkey for work.
