He also threatened:
One user provided a particularly vulgar response to the attacks, tweeting:
The user also stated:
Accounts also circulated pictures celebrating the attacks, including some made by a pro-IS media group, al-Samood. One such image contained the following message in French and Arabic:
O French:
Same as you kill you are killed and we have promised you of that we will move the battles to your own homes, and then you may taste our severity
The pro-IS Dabiq Telegram channel, among those to forward the aforementioned image, also posted the statement:
France sends its aircraft to Syria,on a daily basis, bombing in Syria, killing children and seniors,, today it drinks from the same cup.
A possible motive was speculated by the pro-al-Qaeda (AQ) Twitter account of “Abu Marwan Al Tunsi.” He stated:
France attacks ISIS oil fields over past two weeks and #ISIS retaliates against #France tonight #Paris attacked by multiple bombers/shooters
Additionally, other terrorist groups have been considered by jihadists. User “Abu Saeed Al-Halabi,” a fighter for Syrian AQ affiliate the Nusra Front (NF), tweeted:
He followed up:
