In the days since the attack multiple copies of that passport have turned up.
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Somalia comparison “I am so sorry for what happened”, he said of Friday’s attack, which killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more.
Early investigation showed that at least one of the terrorists that carried out the Paris attacks was from Syria under the disguise of a refugee.
I’m seeing fans of Merkel’s open-borders policy on Twitter celebrating this as a few sort of grand debunking of the “great right-wing freakout” about refugees.
Guterres, who spoke at a refugee camp in Serbia, says “there was very probably one person that passed here that was part of the terrorist operation”.
On October 7 he entered Serbia, where authorities took fingerprints that match those given in Greece, and he then crossed into Croatia the next day, according to a Serbian security official who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to the press. “That’s what separates us from them”.
It was found near the body of a suicide bomber who attacked the Stade de France soccer stadium Friday night as France hosted the German national team.
Fear over migrants has only continued throughout Europe, according to Quartz.
Speaking from a summit in Turkey, President Barack Obama said it would be important “that we not close our hearts to these victims of such violence, and somehow, start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism”.
Germany’s interior minister alluded to the same.
Poland’s incoming right-wing government seems to agree.
Why would an attacker leave a Syrian passport?
The possibility of one of the perpetrators being a Syrian would have implications for Europe’s debate over admitting refugees, and this was not lost on the thousands of Syrians, inside and outside the country, who commented online.
Congress is facing a December 11 deadline to approve a spending bill to keep the government running.
Macedonia, a major entry point for migrants headed from Greece to Western Europe, is preparing to erect a fence along the countries’ shared border if necessary to control migration, the State Security Council said on 16 November.
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In September the White House announced plans to accept an additional 10,000 refugees from Syria, with no congressional approval needed.
Officials say they are confident their checks are good enough already as the nation welcomes 1,000 fleeing Syrians by Christmas – including the first charter flight which arrived today.
The dead were four children, four women and one man.
Several far-right political groups across Europe have presented its discovery as an argument against allowing refugees into Europe.
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Cameron has promised a vote in the next couple of years on whether to stay in the EU or leave, and foes in his own party plan to make clear this week that they want much less of European unity.
