“We’re also dealing with people who’ve suffered the horrors of war, women and children, orphans”.
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The passport was found after Friday’s attack on France’s national stadium, next to the body of one of three suicide bombers who blew themselves nearby.
Greece is the main entry point for Syrian refugees trying to escape war and enter into Europe.
The Serbian daily Blic had earlier published a photograph which it said showed a “Syrian passport issued in the name of Ahmad alMohammad…”
Hungary has built fences on its borders with Serbia and Croatia to divert the flow of migrants. “That’s silly, really silly”, he said, suggesting that the passport was either fake or had been planted “because they hate refugees…so many people hate Syrians”. “The investigation is continuing”, one of the sources told Reuters.
Greece’s junior minister for migration Yiannis Mouzalas admitted in September that it would be “foolish” to completely discount the possibility of jihadists sneaking into Europe among the refugee wave.
“There is always a certain percentage of false Syrian passports and identity documents revealed on the Greek border”, she said.
Hollande defined Friday’s attacks as “an act of war, planned and organised from overseas with help from inside France”. “We can’t just shut our doors to those people”, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.
Countries willing to take refugees – and the communities within these countries, willing to host them – must be recognized and rewarded.
Under the plan, agreed by the outgoing centre-right, pro-EU government, Poland was to take in 4,500 refugees, adding to a few 2,000 it has already accepted. “France must ban Islamist organizations, close radical mosques, and kick out foreigners who are preaching hatred on our soil, as well as illegal immigrants who have nothing to do here”. “Paris changes everything”, Markus Soeder, a Bavarian finance minister, was quoted as telling news outlets.
The Islamic State, which controls vast swaths of Syria and neighboring Iraq, claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.
“Just wait”, the ISIS smuggler said with a smile.
Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon analyst and expert on rogue regimes, told the Washington Free Beacon on Sunday that the United States is not immune from the dangers of Europe’s refugee crisis.
Writing in French, he said: “I think in regards to the casualties, the wounded, the saving services”.
Merkel said that securing Europe’s borders and ensuring those deserving of protection receive it should be a priority.
“Our border force have increased checks they’re making at the border, more screenings of freight vehicles and other vehicles as well. It’s all very well to get air manifests in advance but who’s doing the vetting and how well?”
“It is clear now that together with the victims of Islamo-fascism in the Middle East that come as refugees, extreme elements are crossing to Europe”, Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said, as cited by AFP.
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A coast guard statement Monday said rescuers responded to a total 34 incidents since Friday morning, near the islands of Lesbos – where most migrants head – Chios, Samos, Kos, Kalolimnos and Megisti.
