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Terrorists smuggled into Europe amid refugee flow: Merkel
“In part, the refugee flow was even used to smuggle terrorists,” Merkel told a rally of her Christian Democrats in eastern Germany. More than 1 million migrants arrived in Germany last year, many of them Syrians. Merkel’s open-door policy, which was criticized by a significant section of the German population, saw more than 1 million migrants arrive in Germany in 2015, with a number of those originating from Syria. The an**uncement from Merkel comes just over a week after Germany’s spy chief Hans Georg Maassen said the domestic intelligence agency had obtained information on 17 IS militants who had entered Europe under the guise of refugees. In the same month, a chilling plot emerged, which involved a group of Syrians linked to IS who wanted to carry out a terror attack in Dusseldorf. Two members of the four-man group planned to detonate suicide vests in the center of the western German city, while the other members would look to kill as many people in the vicinity with a combination of explosives and gunfire. Three of the suspects were identified as 27-year-old Hamza C., 25-year-old Mahood B., and Abd Arahman AK, 31. They were arrested at various locations around Germany. Their plan was revealed when a fourth member, 25-year-old Saleh A., handed himself in to police in France in February. “According to current investigations, the four accused were planning to commit an attack in Germany for the foreign terrorist organization Islamic State,” said the prosecutors, as cited by AFP. The head of Germany’s police trade union, Rainer Wendt, said that budget cuts are potentially making it easier for Terrorists to cross into the country amongst the refugee influx because it is impossible to screen all the migrants. “It would have been useful in the second half of last year to create conditions for background checks on all people who came to us, in fact, before they traveled [to Germany]. But that is past history **w, as we can**t afford it,” he told the news show SWRinfo. The German authorities an**unced in June that they are monitoring 499 Islamic extremists who are deemed by the security services to pose a threat. Interior Ministry spokesman Johannes Dimroth said security agencies had received regular tip-offs about possible Islamic extremists coming to Germany as asylum seekers and were systematically checking those reports. However, placing all migrants under suspicion after the arrests would play into IS’ hands, Wendt stressed. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Terrorists smuggled into Europe amid refugee flow: Merkel || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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