5,000 ISIS jihadists at large in the EU: Europol boss warns huge numbers of terrorists have slipped back into European capitals after being trained in Iraq and Syria
- Europol boss Rob Wainwright warned about the number of free jihadists
- Estimated between 3,000 and 5,000 fighters have slipped back into Europe
- Claimed they sneaked back after being trained by ISIS in the Middle East
- Warned 'Europe is currently facing the highest terror threat in 10 years'
- See more news coverage on ISIS at www.dailymail.co.uk/isis
The British head of Europol has warned that as many as 5,000 ISIS-trained jihadists are wandering free in Europe.
Rob
Wainwright, chief of the EU's police agency Europol, said the agency
believed between 3,000 and 5,000 jihadists have been able to slip back
into Europe after training with ISIS in the Middle East.
‘Europe
is currently facing the highest terror threat in more than 10 years,’
Mr Wainwright told Germany’s Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung newspaper.
Threat: Head of
Europol, Rob Wainwright (pictured), has warned that the agency expects
ISIS-trained jihadists to 'stage an attack somewhere in Europe with the
aim of achieving mass casualties among the civilian population'
‘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.’
He added that the increasing number ‘presents EU member states with completely new challenges’.
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But he
insisted that claims terrorists are using the migrant crisis to sneak
into Europe disguised as asylum-seekers have been exaggerated.
‘There is no concrete evidence terrorists are systematically using the flow of refugees to infiltrate Europe,’ he said.
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