(Reuters) Islamic militants will be among migrants heading for Europe as a result of the conflict in Israel, Poland’s prime minister said on Thursday, as his governing party burnishes its anti-immigrant credentials in the run-up to a national election.
The nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party has put migration at the heart of its campaign to win a third term in office on Oct. 15.
“In this great wave of migration there will be Islamic fighters, terrorists, thousands of young men will migrate to Europe,” Mateusz Morawiecki told a press conference.
Poland — along with neighbouring Hungary — has opposed a European Union deal for a quota system between member states for relocating irregular migrants, who have been reaching Europe in increasing numbers.
