United Nations says refusing refugees after Paris attacks not ‘way to go’
Serbian police have detained a migrant holding a Syrian passport with the same data as one found by police at a Paris attack scene, media reported today.
The Presevo border crossing separates Serbia from Macedonia.
Investigators have so far identified five of seven gunmen and suicide bombers whose bodies were found at three sites across the city, while the hunt is on for an eighth gunman who is believed to be on the run.
Ahmad al-Mohammad, from Idlib in Syria has been named as one of the attackers involved in Friday’s terror attacks in Paris.
France has not publicly confirmed that the passport holder is a suspect, but Greek Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas said French authorities had told Greece they suspected that Almohammad, whose passport was found outside the Stade de France near the body of a gunman, was one of the attackers.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees warned on Tuesday against blaming refugees for terrorism after one of the Paris suicide bombers apparently came to Europe along with the thousands fleeing war and poverty.
Blic said that both documents were fake. European officials say from there the man calling himself Almohammad made his way through Serbia on October 7 and then Croatia on October 8.
Serbian state broadcaster RTS said that Slovenia and Austria have agreed to close their borders.
The militant group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks in Paris that killed 129 people. Therefore, we are asking the United States Congress to take immediate and aggressive action to prevent President Obama and his administration from using any federal tax dollars to fund the relocation of up to 425 Syrian refugees (the total possible number of refugees pending for state relocation support at this time) to Florida, or anywhere in the United States, without an extensive evaluation of the risk these individuals may pose to our national security.
“Let’s be very clear, we can not blame the refugees”, he said. But, many people tell officials that they’ve lost their identity papers, and they can give false names and other information, including their country of origin. “It would be totally unfair to blame refugees” for terrorist activities in the world.