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Europe: Jihadists Posing as Migrants
"More than 50,000 jihadists are now living in Europe."
by Soeren Kern • September 3, 2017 at 6:00 am
- More than 50,000 jihadists are now living in Europe. — Gilles de Kerchove, EU Counterterrorism Coordinator.
- Europol, the European police office, has identified at least 30,000 active jihadist websites, but EU legislation no longer requires internet service providers to collect and preserve metadata — including data on the location of jihadists — from their customers due to privacy concerns. De Kerchove said this was hindering the ability of police to identify and deter jihadists.
Masked
Spanish policemen in Madrid arrest a man suspected of recruiting
jihadists to fight for the Islamic State, June 16, 2014. (Photo by
Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
German authorities are
hunting for dozens of members of one of the most violent jihadist groups
in Syria, Jabhat al-Nusra, but who, according to Der Spiegel, entered Germany disguised as refugees.
The
men, all former members of Liwa Owais al-Qorani, a rebel group
destroyed by the Islamic State in 2014, are believed to have massacred
hundreds of Syrians, both soldiers and civilians.
German
police have reportedly identified around 25 of the jihadists and
apprehended some of them, but dozens more are believed to be hiding in
cities and towns across Germany.
In
all, more than 400 migrants who entered Germany as asylum seekers in
2015 and 2016 are now being investigated for being members of Middle
Eastern jihadists groups, according to the Federal Criminal Police (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA).
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