Europol: threat Jihadists are Europeans. – Newsweek Poland

On the jihadists fighting as much as 5 thousand. Europeans. – This is the greatest threat to security in Europe for over 10 years – said the head of the London Europol Rob Wainwright.

– This is certainly the greatest threat of terrorism facing the Europe of the attacks of September 11, 2001 – said the head of Europol, speaking before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament.

Reuters notes that many European countries are in high alert after last week’s attacks on Islamist satirical weekly “Charlie Hebdo” and kosher shop in Paris, which killed 17 people.

Representatives of European security forces have long warned of the radicals returning from fighting in Syria. According to the Director of Europol if these people, mostly young men, they return to their countries, they can make terrorist attacks.

Wainwright British MPs also said that Europol prepared the base 2.5 thousand data. the names of the suspects.

He also warned against the risk of terrorist sleeper cells, noting that one of the brothers who attacked editorial “Charlie Hebdo”, was trained in Yemen. – The problem that we face today are not only Syria and Iraq, but also other terrorist networks in the world, in Africa, for example. In the Arabian Peninsula, which are subsidiaries of Al-Qaeda – he said.

He said that after the attacks on the Seine Europol French police gave “60 urgent intelligence leads.”

In response to the appeals of security and intelligence, British Prime Minister David Cameron assured that if his party prevail in the May parliamentary elections, it enables law enforcement to monitor phone calls and Internet communications of citizens.

Europol: threat Jihadists are Europeans. – Newsweek Poland