Can Security Forces Screen Refugees Arriving in Europe?

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As more and more Middle Eastern refugees look to an increasingly overwhelmed Europe for asylum, concerns over terrorist infiltration are growing. Human rights activists say such worries are nothing more than xenophobic scaremongering, while military officials and counterterrorism experts contend that the threat is real--and spreading like a cancer. Special correspondent Malcolm Brabant reports.

GEORGE KOSMOPOULOS, Director, Amnesty International Greece: The way we see it, these people are genuine refugees. And what they’re fleeing for is actually terror and very, very great human rights violations. They’re leaving behind war. They’re leaving behind destruction. And this is the lens we should apply, and not put the blame to a whole group of people who are simply looking for safety and a better future in Europe.

MARY BOSSI, University of Piraeus: It comes to the number of 30,000 foreign fighters into the ISIS. These foreign fighters come from Europe and Russia. They come from Western countries and Russia and all over the place. So, a number of fighters who are entering, only to travel up and forth from tension areas to the Western countries is much greater than the number that are given to us.

I think they are giving us a smaller number in order to keep the threat level lower.


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