‘Between 3,000 and 5,000 Daesh members at large in Europe’
The head of European Police Office (Europol) says between 3,000 and 5,000 Daesh (ISIL) militants walk freely in Europe.
Between 3,000 and 5,000 EU citizens trained in ISIL terror camps have returned to Europe and pose a “completely new challenge,” according to the continent’s top police chief, Rob Wainwright.
“Europe is currently facing the highest terror threat in more than in a decade,” Europol’s director noted, according to RT.
“We can expect [ISIL] or other religious terror groups to stage an attack somewhere in Europe with the aim of achieving mass casualties among the civilian population,” Wainwright said, noting that the risk of attacks by individuals has also not diminished.
Now Hafsa Kara-Mustapha, journalist and political commentator says there has been “an agenda to increase scaremongering and make Islamophobia very acceptable.”
“If you look at all the terrorist attacks in Europe, they were actually carried out by homegrown terrorists. In other words, these attacks were carried out by born and bred French, Belgian etc nationals who grew up” in their countries, Kara-Mustapha told Press TV on Saturday.
She added that the latest figures are meant to point the finger of blame at refugees and their influx into European countries.
The analyst noted that Europe’s refugee crisis was a result of wars conducted by the West.
According to a report on global terrorism from the Institute of Economics and Peace, since the start of the conflict in Syria in 2011, between 25,000 and 30,000 foreign extremists have arrived in Iraq and Syria, with Europe accounting for 21 percent of the total number.
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