Poland minister: Syrian refugees ‘can form army’

A Syrian passport found by police at the scene of one of the Paris attacks was issued to Ahmad alMohammad, an asylum seeker who had taken the migrants’ route through the Balkans, Greece’s migration minister said on Sunday.

Seven USA governors have said they would not allow Syrian refugees to be settled in their states, contending it is too unsafe to let in people from that war-torn country following the Paris attacks.

Ed Thomas visited the site where he was registered and had his fingerprints taken.

The United Nations on Monday urged countries to treat refugees with “compassion and empathy” after deadly attacks in Paris sparked a few European demands to halt an influx of migrants and several USA states closed their doors to Syrian refugees.

A French source confirmed to AFP that the passport found near the Stade de France bore the name Ahmad alMohammad, born on September 10, 1990. “That’s silly, really silly”, he said, suggesting that the passport was either fake or had been planted “because they hate refugees…so many people hate Syrians”.

“From there he moved to Macedonia, then Serbia and Croatia, where he registered in the Opatovac refugee camp”, CNN reported.

Overwhelmed security services are failing to adequately screen individuals and track them once they enter Europe, according to these officials.

Forensics experts matched those fingerprints to a deceased terrorist involved in Friday’s attack on Paris’ Stade de France. “What seems nearly certain is that the Islamic State wants you to equate refugees with terrorists”, Taylor writes.

But he added: “I don’t think we can leap to the conclusion that the people responsible for this in Paris are recent refugee arrivals”, in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph. “This I think is not going to influence our trip in any way”. “The answer to the Paris attacks and the possibility that one of the attackers came by rubber dinghy to Greece…is not to shut the door on those desperately fleeing war”, he said, calling for Europe to put in place a coherent asylum policy that would both help those on need and address security concerns raised by uncontrolled flows.

Greek police were also asked by French authorities to check on the holder of an Egyptian passport that was apparently found near the body of another attacker, but found no evidence so far that this second person may have also passed through Greece, the police source said.

“These attacks may not only mean the end of Schengen [passport free zones in Europe] but also the reimposition of travel restrictions that haven’t been in play for generations”, he said.