FEARS: Are ISIS plotting a Friday 13th terror attack?
Friday 13th is considered an unlucky day in the West – and millions of people will be making sure they are extra safe when walking to work this morning.
And while today is a day of dread, it has even more significance.
It marks exactly six months since ISIS gunmen slaughtered 129 people on the streets of Paris and in the Bataclan concert hall in November last year – which also happened to fall on Friday 13th.
Europe has been on high alert ever since – and security and defence chiefs say an attack in the UK is not a question of if, but when.
Earlier today it emerged a tourist from Afghanistan was detained along with two other men after pictures of potential targets in London, Paris and Rome were found on mobile phones.
Paris terror attacks Saturday, 14th November 2015
Terrorists slaughtered 130 people during a series of coordinated terror attacks in Paris on Friday 13th November 2015. The attacks took place at the Bataclan concert hall, Boulevard Voltaire, Belle Equipe bar, rue Fontaine au Roi, Petit Cambodge restaurant, and Le Carillon bar.
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Other photos on Hakim Nasiri's phone included Buckingham Palace, the Shard and the Premier Inn near Westfield shopping centre in Stratford.
The cell was allegedly planning attacks in France, Italy and Belgium as well as on Rome’s Colosseum.
This week a terror drill was carried out at the Trafford Centre in Manchester.
The scenario involved a lone-wolf terrorist carrying out an explosion at the shopping centre based on an ISIS-style organisation attacking the public.
GETTY DRILL: A terror exercise was carried out at the Trafford Centre in Manchester this week