They warn of a “high risk of terrorist attacks” in Europe over the Christmas period, due to the war between Israel and Hamas

The war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic group Hamas It is one of the issues on which the population is most divided Europeand it is also a factor that causes a “high risk of terrorist attacks” on the continent, in the month of December.

This is how the European Commissioner for Home Affairs warned: Ylva Johanssonduring a meeting of ministers in Brussels, Belgium.

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“The war between Israel and Hamas, and the polarization it has caused in our society, has had a… high risk of terrorist attacks in the EU during the coming Christmas periodJohansson explained.

Therefore, according to the official, The European Union will allocate an additional EUR 30 million for security.

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Later asked at a press conference, together with the Spanish Minister of the Interior Fernando Grande-MarlaskaJohansson recalled that the level of terrorist threat is “a national competence” and that “many Member States now have a higher level.”

Johansson referred to a recent one attack in Paris, in which a civilian killed one person with a knife and injured two others. The attacker was identified as a radical Islamist, so Emmanuel MacronThe French president described the incident as a “terrorist attack.”

“We saw it recently in Paris and, unfortunately, before,” said the Home Affairs Commissioner.

The official regretted that this is the second formal meeting of European interior ministers that begins by offering condolences for an attack, this time to Germany for the citizen who died in Paris and earlier to Sweden for the two followers of the Swedish national football team. were murdered in Brussels by an alleged jihadist.

Nancy Fraser, Germany’s interior minister, also called for the European Union Keep a close eye on threats and propagandato avoid the “risk of further radicalization of violent Islamist perpetrators”. (JO)