Europe facing biggest terror threat in DECADE as THOUSANDS of ISIS militants at large
THOUSANDS of Islamic State (ISIS) trained militants are at large in Europe and waiting to strike as the continent faces its highest terror threat in over a decade, the EU’s police chief has warned.
By ALIX CULBERTSON
Express.co.uk
Sat, Feb 20, 2016
Between 3,000 and 5,000 EU citizens have secretly returned to the continent after being trained by the jihadis in the Middle East according to Rob Wainwright, the British head of EU police agency Europol for the past seven years.
He said: “Europe is currently facing the highest terror threat in more than ten years.
“We can expect ISIS or other religious terror groups to stage an attack somewhere in Europe with the aim of achieving mass casualties among the civilian population.”
The growing number “presents EU member states with completely new challenges”, warned the former senior player in the British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
But he played down fears that Islamist terrorists are using the European migrant crisis to infiltrate the continent as asylum seekers.
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