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El Pais reports Based on research by Spanish Police there are between 30 - 100k European fighters in Syria and Iraq. (ElPais).[GoogleTranslate].
Spain has become a place of settlement trafficking mafias that are used by jihadi veterans to return to Europe.
Those "militants" Europeans who enlisted in the ranks of the Islamic State are now camouflaged among refugees fleeing war in Syria and use the routes created by mafias Spain -and as platform- to return to sneak in their respective countries origin.
So to a report prepared by the Operations Section of Falsified Documents of UCRIF (Central Unit Illegal Immigration Networks and Falsified Documents) in late 2014, before the attacks in Paris . The document identifies three main routes of entry:. African, South American and European Veterans returning -most experienced in handling weapons and explosives constitute a major counter terrorism concerns of European governments.
The "threat" underlined by this report, that figure "between 30,000 and 100,000 militants" from Europe that have joined the caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (leader EI), is twofold:
the proliferation of trafficking mafias persons before the stampede of civilians and the "terrorists entry and return of European veterans using the same networks."Last November, police dismantled a network of six people based in Madrid -but with branches in Turkey and Latin America - dedicated to introducing people from Syria in Spain.
And that report states: "The investigations have identified only a month, this group of six people of Lebanese and Iraqi nationality made cash transactions of more than 100,000 euros". He adds: "The final destination of this money is not determined but it is assumed that a portion serves to finance the Islamic State ".
According to researchers, it is "more lucrative then the cocaine trafficking business."
The UN estimates trafficked -the end of September 200,000 people had crossed the borders of Turkey and Lebanon pay between 6,000 and 10,000 euros for the long journey, which usually stop in Athens or Istanbul.
In these cities, they are providing false documentation, before boarding the plane that will take them downtown or north of Europe, stopping in either Latin America or directly to UK.
The forged passports, "manufactured in Greece or Turkey, which is the Seven 7 of false documents "in the words of the agents, often have Greek, Turkish or Israeli, or UK citizenship if the final destination is there. Read the full story here.(Spanish).
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That would definitely be a massive overestimation. I do believe the @ICSR_Centre numbers are closer to the truth
— Pieter Van Ostaeyen (@p_vanostaeyen) February 7, 2015
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