Concern in Europe over penetration of ‘dangerous persons’ from Afghanistan

The urgent organization for the release of thousands of citizens from Afghanistan via “air bridge” from Kabul raises the risk of infiltrating the Europe, among these people, and potential jihadists or other potentially dangerous individuals.

This is what AFP writes in today’s report, based on which the police authorities of the old continent worried, having the precedent of migratory flows from Syria, when among the refugees hid some of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015. Hence the urgent need to check on new arrivals.

“We would like to be able to just open our doors,” Britain’s Under Secretary of the Armed Forces told the BBC on Monday. James Hippie. But some “are trying to take advantage of the situation to enter the UK and hurt us,” he added.

It is recalled that a person who was included in the “black list” of the British authorities was thus able to arrive in Britain from Kabul. Today, however, a ministry spokesman said the person had been identified “as part of a rigorous verification process” and was considered “not is of interest “for security services.

Since August 13, London has been liberated from Kabul 8.458 people, of whom 5.171 are Afghans, according to the Interior Ministry.

In France, again, one of the five Afghans who were under surveillance by the authorities was finally put on under arrest, said government spokesman Gabriel Atal.

This man belongs to the environment of “an Afghan who helped free the French, people who worked for France during the evacuation of the embassy, ​​in an incredibly tense period (and) probably saved lives,” Atal told BFMTV. The Afghan who helped free the French, the first to be checked by the French authorities, had, however, “some liaison with the Taliban“at a given time, which has not yet been determined,” he added.

The Minister of the Interior Geral Darmanen for his part he argued that there was no “gap” in the monitoring of Afghans transferred to France. “We know all the people who arrived on our territory, with the contribution of the French army”, he stressed, as broadcast by APE BPE.

Vigilance

“Of course, there is a risk of (terrorist) infiltration. That is why we must be vigilant “, he commented to France Info Didier Leski, the Director-General of the French Immigration and Integration Service (Ofii). “There are special services at Roissy airport that look into every case, but this is nothing new. “In 2015-16 we were faced, in all European countries and especially in Germany, with the arrival of people who had fake Syrian passports and therefore we are on standby,” he added.

In Germany – adds AFP – some of the newcomers have been identified as having been charged with common criminal offenses.

In the Belgium authorities require vigilance at all times. “Chaos reigned at the airport (in Kabul) for a long time and we had to make sure there would be no attack. “Hence the very strict control by the Americans,” he explained on Sunday Sami Mahdi, the Minister of Immigration of Belgium, speaking on the Flemish television channel VTM News. “But there must also be a sufficient flow of information from our services to the Americans” who control the airport “so that the right people can get here,” he continued.

In Russia, President Vladimir Putin stressed the responsibility of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries. It ‘s important to prevent penetration terrorists “in the territories of neighboring countries (…), including those pretending to be refugees,” he said. “Who can be hiding among the refugees, how can we know?” The Russian president insisted that “hundreds of thousands or even millions” of people might want to leave Afghanistan.