European Union border agency
Frontex said in a report on Wednesday that there is a threat of
terrorists mingling among asylum seekers to enter Europe.
"The Paris attacks in November 2015 clearly demonstrated
that irregular migratory flows could be used by terrorists to
enter the EU," Frontex said in its risk analysis report for
2016.
"Two of the terrorists involved in the attacks had
previously irregularly entered through Leros and had been
registered by the Greek authorities. They presented fraudulent
Syrian documents to speed up their registration process".
Frontex said an estimated one million migrants arrived in
Europe last year, accounting for the record number of 1.82
million detections of illegal border crossings reported by EU
Member States. It said that was was more than six times the
previous record set in 2014". The report highlighted that Italy
and Greece have been hit particularly hard by the crisis, while
noting that it is no longer just an problem for those countries.
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