Warning about terrorism during major sporting events in Europe

– International News – Janis Joost, Head of the Terrorism and Radicalization Research Department at the Institute for Security Policy at the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany, in a conversation with “SRF” about the risk of terrorist attacks during the Summer Olympics in France and the European Football Championship in Germany. and said: “The danger of terrorism is entrenched in the society.”

The European football championships will start in Germany in mid-June, and the summer Olympic games in France will be at the end. July will be held.

In a part of this conversation, this prominent expert emphasized that he will not participate in any of these sports events and said: Every important event has risks. It comes with terrorist risks, but also risks of other types.

He pointed to risks including attacks from the jihadist spectrum, describing himself as an extreme Islamist and said: The Khorasan branch of ISIS (abbreviated as IsKA) has recently attempted to carry out attacks across Europe and has also made strongly threatening statements about the European Championships.

According to According to the police, a difference can be made between two types of crimes. First, there are organized criminals. Such attacks can be devastating. They are relatively rare because they require an organization with human expertise, resources and logistics. Due to the weakening of ISIS, this was no longer the case for a long time. Now it seems that the threat is possible again. The second type of criminals are radicalized individuals. They often carry out their attacks using simple tools such as cutting and stabbing. They are more limited in their impact, but they are difficult to prevent because they lack the communication and organizational superstructure. These are the crimes that have been strengthened during the upcoming events of both cases. The union pointed out and stated: We are definitely witnessing preparations in this direction. This main danger is of course not very related to the issue of the European Championship, but all these different developments of anti-Semitism, individual actors, radicalization, radical Islamist terrorist organizations as well as transnational state espionage and subversive actions are converging.

On the eve of the European Football Championship, the German Minister of the Interior assessed the security institutions as well prepared to repel terrorist threats and announced the presence of police forces.

According to the information of the security institutions, extremist terrorists are trying to create unrest in Germany on the eve of the European football championship. Security sources recently said that the calls for terrorist violence recently issued by the ISPK are “part of an ongoing propaganda campaign aimed at creating unrest and inciting individual perpetrators.”

The Minister of the Interior of Germany also recently announced the strengthening of anti-terrorism cooperation with Paris on the eve of the European Football Championship and the Olympic Games held in Germany and France.

In this way, Germany and France want to strengthen their cooperation in the fight against terrorism with regard to the upcoming major sports events in both countries. Nancy Pfizer said in this regard: The security of the European football championship is our main priority in Germany. He considered this summer to be a big challenge for his forces and announced the lack of personnel, especially in providing border security. It will be held in 10 big cities of Germany, including Berlin.

Pfizer has agreed with “Gerald Daronin”, the Minister of the Interior of France, “close cooperation in this field.

France has recently increased its security measures to deal with terrorism and has asked its friendly countries for thousands of police forces to provide security for the Summer Olympics. send to the capital of this country.

Germany is not the only country that supports France in providing security for the Olympic Games. According to the information of the Paris Ministry of Interior, France had previously asked 46 countries of the world to send 2185 police officers to this country.

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