German officials warn of new refugee risk

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BERLIN—The Paris attacks have raised fears of terrorists slipping into Europe by posing as refugees. But in Germany, the top migrant destination, security officials have another worry: Local extremists will recruit the newcomers to join the Islamist cause once they arrive.

German authorities warn that migrants seeking out Arabic-language mosques in search of the familiar are increasingly ending up at those attended by Islamist radicals. In interviews, security officials from Berlin to the southwest German state of Saarland said they have registered a sharp rise in the number of asylum-seekers attending mosques they believed attracted extremists.

Federal officials said they have counted more than 100 cases in which Islamists known to them have tried to establish contact with refugees. According to state and local agencies across the country, Islamists have offered migrants rides, food, shelter and translation help. In some cases, they have invited them to soccer games and grill parties, or brought them copies of the Quran and conservative Muslim clothing.

“They start by saying, ‘We will help you live your faith,’ ” said Torsten Voss, the head of the German domestic intelligence agency’s Hamburg branch. “The Islamist area comes later—that is, of course, their goal.”

Security officials across Germany describe the potential radicalization of migrants, still entering the country by the thousands every day, as a challenge that adds to Europe’s existing security threats. With Germany expecting to take in roughly one million asylum-seekers from the Middle East and elsewhere this year, authorities are scrambling to prevent new pockets of radicalism from forming….

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Paris fugitive ‘recruited men’ at refugee hotspot

The Paris terrorist suspect Salah Abdeslam was at a Budapest railway station two months before the attacks and left with at least two young men from among a throng of migrants, Hungarian officials revealed yesterday.
Confirmation of the fugitive’s presence at Keleti (Eastern) station — a migrant hotspot during the summer — is the latest sign that the terrorists and their associates took advantage of the refugee surge to move freely around Europe….

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Fugitive of Paris attacks recruited men at Budapest train station amid refugee crisis

One of the alleged organizers of the November Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, went to one of Budapest’s main train stations in mid-September and left with two men who had just arrived with a wave of refugees, Hungarian officials have said.

Abdeslam travelled through the Hungarian capital’s Keleti train station, Janos Lazar, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said on Thursday at a press-conference, without naming the alleged terrorist or exact date of his visit to Budapest.

“I can confirm that ... based on current information of the Hungarian secret services, one of the chief organizers of the Paris attack ... had been in Budapest,” Lazar said, as quoted by Reuters.

He also said that Hungarian secret services had confirmed information about Abdeslam visiting Budapest, which was previously obtained from an unnamed foreign agency, stressing that the agency did not have this information at the time of the Paris attacks.

Although Lazar did not mention Abdeslam by name, another Hungarian government official confirmed his identity to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

According to Lazar, Abdeslam recruited two young men at the station who were refusing to register in Hungary and left the country with them. AP added that this had happened in mid-September.

The Keleti train station has been at the center of the current refugee crisis, as thousands of people congregated at Keleti over the summer seeking to board trains bound for Austria and Germany.

On Wednesday, a French judicial source told Reuters that Abdeslam visited Hungary to pick up two men who are suspected by French investigators of having been involved in the terrorist attacks in Paris.

Another source told the news agency that Abdeslam was stopped by police on the Austrian border before entering Hungary in a car rented in Belgium.

Investigators across Europe are still hunting for Abdeslam, who is suspected of being one of the terrorists involved in the Paris attacks claimed by Islamic State….

Paris attacker recruits refugees in Hungary

 

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for posting this ! I believe is can and has happen , it would very easy to convert new refugees that are in a strange country needing a place to sleep and food to and not being able to speak the language .