France says two Paris bombers travelled through Greece
Statement comes after EU’s top anti-terrorism official rejects claims that ISIL members infiltrate Europe as refugees.
Published On 20 Nov 2015
Two of the three suicide bombers who blew themselves up at a football stadium in Paris last week had passed through Greece posing as refugees, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins has said.
In a statement on Friday, Molins said the suicide bomber who detonated his explosive vest at Gate H of Stade de France had his fingerprints taken in Greece – a key entry point for refugees – on October 3, at the same time as the bomber who blew himself up at the stadium’s Gate D.
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The prosecutors did not name either man or the specific place in Greece in the statement.
‘Tactical move’
The announcement came shortly after the European Union’s top anti-terrorism official rejected claims that the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group were entering the EU hidden among refugees.
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“If there are one or two cases [of infiltration] – and these still have to be verified – then it’s probably a tactical move by Daesh to sow doubt, and make us doubt whether we should help the refugees,” Giles de Kerchove, the EU counterterrorism coordinator, told French broadcaster RFI/France 24, using an Arabic acronym for ISIL.
He urged people not to “fall into this kind of trap of associating immigration and terrorism”.
Source: News Agencies