Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency is warning that ISIS may be trying to manipulate refugees into carrying out terrorist attacks.
The news comes just a week after Tunisian Anis Amri killed 12 people by ploughing a lorry through a Christmas market in Berlin.
Since his death it has been confirmed that he pledged allegiance to ISIS in a video.
Frontex, the European border and coast guard agency, said Europe needed to be ready for the potential dangers, reports the Independent.
“Some people might get radicalised or manipulated or used or utilised by terrorist groups after they enter the EU,” Fabrice Leggeri, executive director of Frontex, said.
There are also fears ISIS will sneak in trained fighters among the mass movements of people fleeing war, hunger and extreme poverty.
A report from Europol noted the vulnerability of refugees to radicalisation and said that as of April 2016 there have been approximately 300 cases in which jihadists tried to recruit refugees entering Europe.
“Given that it is in the interests of IS [Isis] to inflame the migration crisis to polarise the EU population and turn sections of it against those seeking asylum, some infiltration of refugee camps and other refugee/migrant groups is likely,” the report said.
Source: Independent
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