Originally Posted by Eurostar:
“Amri had served time in an Italian prison ie. another EU country. There's no way someone like that should even be eligible to make an asylum application and he should have been deported before now.
Introducing hard borders and customs posts throughout the EU just in order to deter a handful of potential terrorists from moving from country to country (which might not even work) could be a case of throwing the baby out with the bath water. By all means there should be rigid enforcement at the external borders but stopping and questioning every single person who wants to travel from France to Belgium or Holland to Germany would be a very drastic step.”
Agree that he appears to have been radicalised in Italy, that's why I posted about France & Italy having questions to answer.
Conflicting reports on how he was radicalised- either in prison or targeted by ISIS recruiters around Lampedusa when he was rough sleeping. ( It's only very recently that we sent personnel to monitor at refugee landing points. )
I haven't read anywhere that estimates numbers as "a handful" .
Where numbers of impostor refugees are unknown ( due to so few having bona fide IDs) combined with existent resident nationals ( stats for German "persons of interest" was posted upthread) who can criss cross borders for funding, illegal arms, reconn, attacks then altogether it currently makes free borders a security nightmare with severe political repercussions as we can see.
Germany already re-introduced some border checks but obviously he knew where to avoid on exit from Germany so that has not achieved anything.
There's a reason the Tunisisan took the long route, avoided Aust & Switz in his run back to Italy. Could it be based on
- Switz doesn't allow passport free travel AFAIK
- Aust reimposed selective border checks last year
you can see where I'm going with that when you look at the route he traced......